Ruby Yang
- Directing
- Hong Kong
Biography
Ruby Yang is a Chinese American documentary film director and producer. She, originally from Hong Kong, relocated to San Francisco in 1977 and earned a degree from the San Francisco Art Institute with a focus on Painting and Filmmaking. Yang has been actively involved in creating documentaries and feature films, including the Oscar-winning film The Blood of Yingzhou District (2006) and A Moment in Time (2010), a documentary that explores San Francisco’s Chinatown through its theatres and movie enthusiasts. From 2015 to 2019, she spearheaded the Hong Kong Documentary Initiative at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), with the goal of nurturing the next generation of documentary filmmakers in the region. Since July 2023, she has served as the director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at HKU.
Known for
Filmography
- The Vanishing Song · Director
- Ah Cheung: Wings of Hope · Creative Producer, Executive producer
- My Voice, My Life Revisited · Director
- Stories of Pang Jai · Executive producer
- The Last Stitch · Supervising Editor, Producer
- China's Forgotten Daughters · Supervising Editor
- Ritoma · Director, Editing
- Fires · Thanks
- Please Remember Me · Executive producer
- In Search of Perfect Consonance · Director, Story
- My Voice, My Life · Director, Producer
- Whisper of Minqin · Supervising Editor
- Fish Story · Producer
- Shanghai Strangers · Editing
- Subway to Yong Chun · Director
- The Warriors of Qiugang · Director, Editing
- A Moment in Time · Director, Editing
- Tongzhi in Love · Director, Editing
- Chung To: Close Up & Personal · Director
- Peng Liyuan & the Fu'Ai Charity · Director
- The Blood of Yingzhou District · Director, Editing
- Julia's Story · Director
- Yao Ming and Children Affected b HIV/AIDS · Director
- China 21 · Director, Editing
- A Journey to Silicon Valley · Director, Editing
- Promises · Additional Editing
- Autumn in New York · Editing
- Citizen Hong Kong · Narrator, Director
- Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl · Editing, Associate Producer
- All Power to the People! · Editing
- a.k.a. Don Bonus · Editing
- China Cry · Editing
- White Passage · Director
- Matrimony · Director
- Mirror Points · Director
- Nowhere · Director