EXCLUSIVE: Black Bear‘s administration arm has signed author and director Jing Ai Ng for illustration.
Ng’s debut characteristic, Forge, premiered this yr at SXSW. Developed via Movie Impartial’s Screenwriters Lab, Forge is ready in Miami’s artwork world and follows siblings Raymond and Coco Zhang—gifted however struggling artists who function a covert forgery ring from the again of their household’s restaurant. When a disgraced millionaire coerces them into recreating masterpieces for his personal assortment, they grow to be entangled in a harmful internet of deception and ambition. The movie stars Kelly Marie Tran and Andie Ju.
Ng’s brief movie Delta, an Asian-American people story, gained Gold within the Ardour Undertaking class on the 2023 Cannes Lions Younger Director Award. She additionally holds an MFA in Directing from the American Movie Institute Conservatory, the place she made the brief Fleck as her thesis mission. A coming-of-age drama, Fleck follows Jamie, an Asian-American teenager navigating life at a predominantly white boarding college. The movie gained the Administrators Guild of America (DGA) Pupil Award.
Different artists repped by Black Bear embody Robert Schwentke and September 5 director Tim Fehlbaum. On the movie aspect, Black Bear’s slate contains Clint Bentley’s Practice Goals, starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones, which premiered on the 2025 Sundance Movie Competition, the Sydney Sweeney-led untitled Christy Martin boxing mission from director David Michôd, and Man Ritchie’s In The Gray, starring Henry Cavill, Jake Gyllenhaal and Eiza Gonzalez.
