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The episode features an interview with first-time feature director Jing Ai Ng discussing her film FORGE set in the Miami art world.

This week on BEHIND THE LENS, we turn our attention to the Miami art world and first-time feature director Jing Ai Ng with her film FORGE. I thoroughly enjoyed this film from a story perspective and from a directorial and production perspective. As I’ve been seeing in quite a few films of late from first-time feature directors, once again, production values are high, but story and character are at the center of it all. On seeing FORGE, I would never believe that this was Jing’s first feature directorial effort. And she is the screenwriter, as well! So, what is FORGE about? Set in Miami, we meet the resourceful Zhang siblings—Raymond and Coco— who sell forged paintings to unsuspecting parties. Coco is an artist whose own work is so beautiful that it should be hanging in galleries, something that continues to frustrate her and her dream. Raymond, on the other hand, makes a buck by providing fake IDs, licenses, passports, and other documents, including those that attest to the provenance of works of art. The Zhang family is unaware of what Coco and Raymond are doing, and happily own and run a family Chinese restaurant. Despite their thriving underground operation, the siblings are…

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Host: btlradioshow

Guest: Jing Ai Ng

Topics covered

• Miami art world
• first-time feature director
• forged paintings
• family dynamics
• FBI Art Crimes

Keywords

• Jing Ai Ng
• FORGE
• Miami
• forged paintings
• art crimes
• Raymond Zhang
• Coco Zhang
• Holden Beaumont

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: FORGE

Places: Miami

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