Ruby Yang

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... More

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