Ruby Yang (楊紫燁; Simplified Chinese: 杨紫烨), is a Academy Award winner; Chinese American filmmaker.
Originally from Hong Kong, Yang has worked on a range of feature and documentary films exploring Chinese themes as director and editor. Her work has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, winning once and received other awards including the Emmy Awards, a DuPont-Columbia Journalism Award and two IDA Pare Lorentz Award nominations.
In 2003, along w...
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Ruby Yang (楊紫燁; Simplified Chinese: 杨紫烨), is a Academy Award winner; Chinese American filmmaker.
Originally from Hong Kong, Yang has worked on a range of feature and documentary films exploring Chinese themes as director and editor. Her work has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, winning once and received other awards including the Emmy Awards, a DuPont-Columbia Journalism Award and two IDA Pare Lorentz Award nominations.
In 2003, along with filmmaker Thomas F. Lennon, Yang founded the Chang Ai Media Project to raise HIV/AIDS awareness in China. Since then, its documentaries and public service announcements have been seen by hundreds of millions of Chinese viewers. Lennon and Yang made a trilogy of short documentary films about modern China, including "The Blood of Yingzhou District," which won an Oscar in 2007, and "The Warriors of Qiugang," nominated in 2011.
Yang is now based in Beijing, directing documentaries and developing several feature film projects.
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