Ruby Yang

Ruby Yang , Chin. 楊紫燁 (* in Hong Kong ) is a Sino-American film editor , film director and film producer . She has received numerous prizes for her work, including the 2007 Oscar for best short documentary . She teaches at the University of Hong Kong and heads the Hong Kong Documentary Initiative there .

life and work

In 1977 Ruby Yang moved to the United States of America . She first studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco and then graduated with a master's degree in filmmaking.

She first worked as an editor in the entertainment industry. She was responsible for the section of China Cry: A True Story (1990) and Joan Chen Autumn in New York (2000).

With Thomas Lennon Yang in 2003 founded the Chang Ai Media Project to be in China on HIV educate infections. Educational films from the project reached hundreds of millions of people in the People's Republic. In 2004 she moved back to China, first to Beijing and later to her native Hong Kong.

Along with Lennon as producers created Yang as a director between 2006 and 2010 a trilogy of documentary - short films about modern Chinese subjects. The trilogy consisted of:

The Blood of Yingzhou District (2006) on discrimination against rural Chinese childrenwho have losttheir parents to AIDS .
Tongzhi in Love (2008) about homosexuals in China and the conflict with their conservative parents.
The Warriors of Qiugang (2010) on the resistance of the local population to a local environmental disaster . The short film sparked immediate reactions from the Chinese government to eliminate the aftermath.

The Blood of Yingzhou District won an Oscar , The Warriors of Qiugang was nominated for an Oscar.

Since 2015 she has taught at the Institute for Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Hong Kong and is now head of the Hong Kong Documentary Initiative at the university .

Awards and nominations (selection)

Ruby Yang has received numerous awards.

Oscar :

2007 - Oscar for best short documentary for The Blood of Yingzhou District (with Thomas Lennon )

2011 - Oscar nomination for best short documentary for The Warriors of Qiugang (with Thomas Lennon). The award went to Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon for Strangers No More

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Ruby Yang on the pages of the Chang Ai Media Project .
↑ Ruby Yang's homepage
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d ^e Oscar Winner Sees Boom in Chinese Documentaries , Hollywood Reporter, March 30, 2011.
↑ Patrick Frater, Hong Kong's Oscar Winner Ruby Yang Comes Home, Finds Her 'Voice' , Variety, March 23, 2015.
^ Ruby Yang on the homepage of the Journalism and Media Studies Center of the University of Hong Kong
^ Awards and nominations from R. Yang at the IMDb .
↑ Results of the 79th Academy Awards on oscars.org.
↑ Results of the 83rd Academy Awards 2011 on oscars.org.

personal data
SURNAME	Yang, Ruby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Sino-American film editor, film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hong Kong

[Chang-1] Ruby Yang on the pages of the Chang Ai Media Project .

[2] Ruby Yang's homepage

[HR-3] A ^b ^c ^d ^e Oscar Winner Sees Boom in Chinese Documentaries , Hollywood Reporter, March 30, 2011.

[4] Patrick Frater, Hong Kong's Oscar Winner Ruby Yang Comes Home, Finds Her 'Voice' , Variety, March 23, 2015.

[5] Ruby Yang on the homepage of the Journalism and Media Studies Center of the University of Hong Kong

[6] Awards and nominations from R. Yang at the IMDb .

[7] Results of the 79th Academy Awards on oscars.org.

[8] Results of the 83rd Academy Awards 2011 on oscars.org.