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Chris Billing

Washington DC

Filmmaker

Tags: Independent Lens  

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Gender: Male

Race: Caucasian/White

Citizenship: USA

Languages Spoken: Mandarin, Modern Hebrew

Biography: Chris Billing is writer, producer, director and editor for LOST SPARROW, an intensely personal documentary that investigates the tragic and untimely deaths of his two adopted Crow Indian brothers, Bobby and Tyler. The film was broadcast in November, 2010 as part of the Emmy award-winning PBS series, Independent Lens. Previously, Billing produced, directed and scripted the full-length documentary UP TO THE MOUNTAIN, DOWN TO THE VILLAGE (2005). The film returns with three members of China's "lost generation" -- now U.S. citizens -- to the remote and impoverished villages where, as teenagers, they were sent for a decade of re-education during Chairman Mao's tumultuous Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). UP TO THE MOUNTAIN, DOWN TO THE VILLAGE is distributed by WGBH International, and has aired on several European and Asian broadcast networks. Billing worked for more than a decade as a China-based journalist. His last assignment, from 1996 to 2001, was as NBC News Beijing Bureau Chief. During his NBC tenure, he reported on numerous historic events, including the death of paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, Hong Kong's reversion from British to Chinese rule, and the 50th anniversary of the founding of the PRC. Billing speaks Mandarin Chinese and Modern Hebrew.