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‘Forge’ Filmmaker Jing Ai Ng Signs With Black Bear

Jing Ai Ng's debut feature 'Forge' premiered this year at SXSW.

Developed through Film Independent’s Screenwriters Lab, Forge is set in Miami’s art world and follows siblings Raymond and Coco Zhang—gifted but struggling artists who operate a covert forgery ring from the back of their family’s restaurant. Ng’s short film Delta, an Asian-American folk story, won Gold in the Passion Project category at the 2023 Cannes Lions Young Director Award. On the film side, Black Bear’s slate includes Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams, starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, the Sydney Sweeney-led untitled Christy Martin boxing project from director David Michôd, and Guy Ritchie’s In The Grey, starring Henry Cavill, Jake Gyllenhaal and Eiza Gonzalez.

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