Wei Ling is a swim addict, sleep enthusiast, photographer and filmmaker. She is obsessed with astrophysics and time travel, especially now that
scientists have found a particle that travels faster than light.When she's not pondering about wormholes, she writes, directs and produces television. Shows she worked on include the Emmy-nominated "The Port Chicago Mutiny", "The Bill Clinton Biography", "The First 48", and MTV's "Made" and "My Super Sweet Sixteen".
Most recently she completed her feature directorial debut "The Unlikely Girl". Other filmmaking adventures include a samurai short collaboration at Kyoto's Shochiku Studio and the horror fable "Aunt Tigress", which screened at Cannes, Sitges, Comic Con, Buenos Aires, Beijing, etc. The film won best short at Beloit International Film Festival, where she also received the Emerging Filmmaker Grant Award. In 2006, her supernatural thriller script, "The Chim" (co-writer), was selected to participate in Tribeca Film Festival's All Access Connect 2006. Her first screenplay, "The Deep of the Mind", was a semi-finalist of Sundance Writer's Lab and Chesterfield Writer's Film Project.
Before making movies, Wei Ling worked at Miramax Films in acquisitions and at France's Metropolitan Films in development. She holds a psychology BA from Cornell University.