EXCLUSIVE: Black Bear‘s administration arm has signed author and director Jing Ai Ng for illustration.
Ng’s debut characteristic, Forge, premiered this 12 months at SXSW. Developed by way of Movie Unbiased’s Screenwriters Lab, Forge is about 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 develop into entangled in a harmful net of deception and ambition. The movie stars Kelly Marie Tran and Andie Ju.
Ng’s brief movie Delta, an Asian-American folks story, received Gold within the Ardour Mission 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 venture. A coming-of-age drama, Fleck follows Jamie, an Asian-American teenager navigating life at a predominantly white boarding faculty. The movie received the Administrators Guild of America (DGA) Scholar Award.
Different artists repped by Black Bear embody Robert Schwentke and September 5 director Tim Fehlbaum. On the movie facet, Black Bear’s slate consists of Clint Bentley’s Practice Desires, starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones, which premiered on the 2025 Sundance Movie Competition, the Sydney Sweeney-led untitled Christy Martin boxing venture from director David Michôd, and Man Ritchie’s In The Gray, starring Henry Cavill, Jake Gyllenhaal and Eiza Gonzalez.
