Van Ling
- Known for
- Visual Effects
- Movies
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Van Ling is a visual effects supervisor, film producer and creator of DVD menus for many popular movies, including the Star Wars DVDs.
Ling graduated summa cum laude from the USC School of Cinema-Television. He began his career as a visual effects supervisor for The Abyss and became head of production on Lightstorm Entertainment, for which he continued with many major motion pictures and television, including Titanic, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Walking Dead, Starship Troopers, Dr. Dolittle, Vanilla Sky and many others.[3] He had a brief cameo in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic, as the Chinese man, who was in real-life, a Chinese passenger booked under the name of Fang Lang (original name Wing Sun Fong, 方榮山), whom Fifth Officer Harold Lowe rescued from the sea.
Van is also an active member of the Visual Effect Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Producers Guild of America and the Visual Effects Society, the latter in which he served six terms as Board of Directors.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2022 | Jurassic Punk | Self |
| 1997 | Titanic | Chinese Man |
| 1991 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | Cyberdyne Tech |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2019 | Cliffs of Freedom | Director, Screenplay |
| 2003 | No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects | Producer, Director |
| 2001 | Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator' | Producer, Director |
| 1993 | T2: More Than Meets the Eye | Director |
| 1991 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | Producer |
| 1989 | The Abyss | Producer |
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