Ruby Yang

Ruby Yang (楊紫燁; Simplified Chinese: 杨紫烨), is a Hong Kong-born American filmmaker. Yang has worked as film director and editor, on a range of feature and documentary films exploring Chinese themes.

Biography
Born in Hong Kong. She moved to the United States in 1977, to studied filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute. After graduation, she worked as an editor on many Chinese American documentaries and mainstream Hollywood films.

She won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for The Blood of Yingzhou District (2006), and received other awards including an Emmy, the DuPont-Columbia Journalism Award, FilmAid Asia's Humanitarian Award, the Global Health Council Media 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, Tongzhi in Love (2008) and The Warriors of Qiugang, which was nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject in 2011.

Yang relocated to Beijing in 2004 and moved back to Hong Kong in 2013. She was appointed by the University of Hong Kong as Hung Leung Hau Ling Distinguished Fellow in Humanities in the fall of 2013. Her recent feature documentary My Voice, My Life《争氣》opened in 13 theatres in Hong Kong and Macau. The Wall Street Journal named it "Hong Kong’s five most notable films of 2014". It won the 2015 NPT Human Spirit Award at the Nashville Film Festival.

In 2015, Yang led the establishment of a new documentary project, named HK Documentary Initiative, aiming at fostering the development of the Hong Kong documentary industry. The efforts of the project fall into three categories, Seed Grants, Master Class, and Documentary Literacy. Yang herself is the director and one of the creative advisors to support emerging documentary filmmakers in Hong Kong. In July 2023, Yang was appointed as the interim director of  'Journalism and Media Studies Centre' (JMSC) at the University of Hong Kong.

As director

 * My Voice, My Life Revisited《繼續爭氣》/《继续争气》2020
 * Ritoma《仁多瑪/《仁多玛》2018
 * In Search of Perfect Consonance《尋找完美第五度》/《寻找完美第五度》2016
 * My Voice, My Life《爭氣》/《争气》2014
 * The Warriors of Qiugang《仇崗衛士》/《仇岗卫士》2010
 * A Moment in Time《聲光轉逝》/《声光转逝》2009
 * Tongzhi in Love《彼岸浮生》2008
 * The Blood of Yingzhou District《颍州的孩子》2006
 * Julia’s Story《朱力亞的故事》/《朱力亚的故事》2005
 * China 21《中國一二》/《中国一二》2002
 * Citizen Hong Kong《風雨故園》/《风雨故园》1999

As editor

 * Becoming American: The Chinese Experience", 2003
 * Autumn in New York, 2000
 * Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl, 1998
 * Street Soldier, 1997
 * All Power to the People, 1996
 * "A.K.A. Don Bonus", 1995
 * China: The Wild East, 1994