Ray Jiing

Ray Jiing is Dean and Professor of the Graduate Institute of the Sound and Image Studies in Documentary, Tainan National College of Arts, Taiwan. He served as the head of National Taipei Film Archive for 8 years in the 1990s and was instrumental in preserving Taiwanese dialect films as well as conducting much archival research, and film restoration and preservation, including the restoration of the earliest films prints from the Japanese colonization period (1920s onwards). He has taught at various institutions and has been involved in many innovative and fundamental community based documentary projects and movements across the Taiwan Strait. He received his MFA and PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles, and BFA from the University of Texas at Austin.