Van Ling is a producer and creator of DVD menus for many popular movies, including the Star Wars DVDs. Ling graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern California film school.^[1] Ling has had a highly successful career as a visual effects supervisor for many major motion pictures and television, including Titanic, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Walking Dead, The Abyss, Starship Troopers, Dr. Dolittle, Vanilla Sky and many others.^[2] Ling also had a brief cameo in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic, as the Chinese man, who was in real-life, a Chinese passenger booked under the name of Fang Lang (original name Wing Sun Fong, 方榮山), whom Fifth Officer Harold Lowe rescued from the sea.^[3]

He directed Cliffs of Freedom, an indie drama film starring Christopher Plummer, Billy Zane, Lance Henriksen, Tania Raymonde, Jan Uddin, Raza Jaffrey, Patti LuPone, Costas Mandylor, and Kevin Corrigan.^[4]