Ling is an award-winning documentary Director and Editor. She is a Co-Programme Director of the Film Directing MA Programme at the University of Edinburgh. She is also a Lecturer of Film and Moving Image in the postgraduate department which specialises in documentary making. She has worked on many award-winning films including The Edge of Dreaming (IDFA Premiere, 2009, Dir. Amy Hardie), DAU. Degeneration (Berlinale Premiere, 2020, Dir. Ilya Permyakov and Ilya Krzhanovskiy), and The Hermit of Treig (BAFTA Best Single Documentary, 2022, Dir. Lizzie MacKenzie). Her latest film is Surviving Translation (2023); an experiential documentary about the mistranslation of female immigrants and the irreversible consequences it can have on them.
