Zhang Jialing

Biography

Zhang Jialing (张嘉玲, also credited as Lynn Zhang; born 1984) is an Emmy Award-nominated independent filmmaker based in Beijing and Massachusetts.

Zhang holds a Master’s degree from New York University in documentary filmmaking. Her award-winning feature documentary debut Complicit (2017) follows the journey of a benzene-poisoned Chinese migrant worker who takes on the global electronics manufacturing industry. The film premiered at the London Human Rights Watch Film Festival in 2017. Her second feature film One Child Nation (2019) which she co-directed with fellow NYU alumna Wang Nanfu, won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Feature at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Zhang has also f...