<p>Qing Wang believes that art is a magical international language. Whether music, painting, dance, design or movies, the arts weave a huge network that connects people from different parts of the world and in different time periods.<br /><br />Qing grew up in Mainland China, a country rich in cultural history. When she was six-years-old, she watched the film "E.T.". She didn’t know why she cried when the character cried, why she laughed when the character laughed. She was too young to understand the power of the visual medium. To her, it felt like a dream: intense and emotional, but at the same time fantastic and far-away.<br /><br />Growing up, Qing studied sketching, painting and Chinese brush calligraphy. She loved to let her imagination roam, and fell deeply in love with the process of creating. But the more she learned, the more she realized she had yet to learn.<br /><br />When she was just seventeen-years-old, Qing spent four years in the beautiful city of Edinburgh in Scotland, studying animation. She spoke no English, and had never been away from home. Qing looks back on that time as the most precious four years in her life. As Qing puts it, "During this time, it was as if I created a pair of invisible wings for myself, wings that could fly me anywhere."<br /><br />Qing came to the United States two years ago, and became a graduate film student at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Her passion as a filmmaker is showing the hidden beauty in the world that most people never notice. </p>