Ruby Yang | DIRECTOR Ruby Yang is a noted Chinese American filmmaker whose work in documentary and dramatic film has earned her an Academy Award and numerous international awards. She lives and works in Beijing. Along with producer Thomas Lennon, Yang founded the Chang Ai Media Project (formerly The China AIDS Media Project) in 2003. Since then, its documentaries and public service announcements about AIDS awareness have been seen more than 900 million times. The Blood of Yingzhou District, which Yang directed as part of the project, won the 2006 Oscar for Documentary - Short Subject at the 79th Academy Awards in February, 2007. Their second documentary short, Tongzhi in Love, which Yang directed, premiered at theSilverdocs Documentary Film Festival and the Frameline32 Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in June 2008. The film won the Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival. In August 2010, Yang and Lennon completed the project’s third documentary short, The Warriors of Qiugang, which was nominated for the 2011 Academy Award for Documentary Short. Prior to her work in Beijing, Yang’s feature documentaries Citizen Hong Kong and China 21 were aired in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and numerous European outlets after showing on PBS. Yang has also edited several feature films, including Joan Chen’s debut feature Xiu Xiu, The Sent Down Girl and Chen's first Hollywood feature, Autumn in New York, starring Richard Gere and Winona Ryder. Yang was Series Editor for Bill Moyers’ Becoming American - the Chinese Experience (PBS, March 2003). Other work includes Journey to Silicon Valley, a hugely successful 90-minute documentary for Mainland Chinese TV, produced by Eric Xu, the co-founder of Baidu.com. In 2009, Yang completed A Moment in Time, a one-hour documentary about the experience of the Chinese in San Francisco's Chinatown, told through the films they loved. In August 2010, Yang and Lennon completed the project’s third documentary short, The Warriors of Qiugang, which was nominated for the 2011 Academy Award for Documentary Short. She is currently developing several feature film projects with young Chinese scriptwriters.
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