Masterclass with Mark Lee Ping-Bing
Taiwanese cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-Bing in conversation with Irish cinematographer Tim Fleming (ISC, The Irish Society of Cinematographers).
Presented in association with Screen Training Ireland.
Q&As after selected screenings.
It is our great privilege to welcome the internationally acclaimed cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-Bing (b.1954, Taiwan). Mark Lee served in the navy before training at Central Motion Pictures Company, the longest running production company in Taiwan. In a career that spans over three decades he has distinguished himself as one of the world’s most gifted cinematographers.
Mark Lee contributed to the New Taiwanese Cinema of the 1980s at which time he began a prolific and long-time collaboration with master director Hou Hsiao-Hsien (our esteemed festival guest last year). Mark Lee has also collaborated with renowned directors Wong Kar-Wai, Tran Anh Hung, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Ann Hui and Sylvia Chang, and his work has won him numerous international honours. He has over 70 films and 21 international awards to his credit including the Glory of The Country Award which he received on two occasions from the Government Information Office of Taiwan, and the president of Taiwan’s Light of The Cinema Award.
He was awarded the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution at the 2016 Berlinale for Crosscurrent; the APSA Award for Achievement in Cinematography at the 9th Asia Pacific Screen Awards for The Assassin (2015); the Grand Technical Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000 for In the Mood for Love, as well as the Golden Horse Film Award (Taiwan) and 2000 Asia Pacific Film Festival Award (China) for Best Cinematography.
The East Asia Film Festival Ireland offers rare screenings of five films spanning Mark Lee’s career: In the Mood for Love (2000); Springtime in a Small Town (2002); Three Times (2005); the documentary Let the Wind Carry Me (2010); the Irish première of his latest work Seventy-Seven Days (2017); and with the support of Screen Training Ireland a Masterclass on Saturday 7 April led by Irish cinematographer Tim Fleming (ISC).
