Ruby Yang

Ruby Yang won an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for The Blood of Yingzhou District (2006). She is also known for directing The Warriors of Qiugang (2010) and My Voice, My Life (2014). With filmmaker Thomas Lennon, Yang mounted a vast multi-year AIDS prevention campaign seen over 900 million times on Chinese television. Together they made a trilogy of short documentary films about modern China, including The Blood of Yingzhou District, which won an Oscar in 2007; Tongzhi in Love, which was shortlisted in 2009; and The Warriors of Qiugang, nominated in 2011. Yang lived and worked in San Francisco for many years and relocated to Beijing in 2004. She was appointed by the University of Hong Kong as Hung Leung Hau Ling Distinguished Fellow in Humanities in 2013. Her latest documentary My Voice, My Life opened in 13 theaters in Hong Kong and Macau. Wall Street Journal (China) named it, "Hong Kong's five most-notable films of 2014." Yang is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She now heads the Hong Kong Documentary Initiative at the University of Hong Kong to support emerging documentary filmmakers in the region.