Ruby Yang

Ruby Yang is an accomplished Hong Kong-born American filmmaker and educator who currently heads the School of Future Media at the University of Hong Kong. Yang's work as a documentary filmmaker has earned her an Academy Award, Since joining HKU in 2013, Yang has taught documentary filmmaking at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (which has become a foundation division of the School of Future Media) and completed four documentaries. In 2015, she was honored with an Honorary Fellowship from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts for her achievements and contributions to the performing arts. In 2018, she received the prestigious Artist of the Year (Film) award at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards, recognizing her impact as a documentarian.

Biography Yang was born in Hong Kong. She moved to the United States in 1977 to study filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute. . As of October 2025, Yang is the director of School of Future Media at the University of Hong Kong.

Her feature documentary My Voice, My Life (2014) won the 2015 NPT Human Spirit Award at the Nashville Film Festival.

In 2015, Yang established Hong Kong Documentary Initiative (HKDI), aiming at fostering Hong Kong documentary filmmakers. It provided grants for 18 local projects, including Chan Tze-woon's Blue Island (2022). HKDI regularly hosts live interviews and dialogues with prominent filmmakers, until 2020.

The Last Stitch (2019) is another documentary project, that Yang worked as a producer, explores generations of a family of tailors emigrated from Hong Kong to Canada. It captures the disappearing art of handmade Chinese Cheongsam.

In 2024, three of Yang's films are shown in Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival at M+ Museum.

Filmography

As director My Voice, My Life Revisited (2020)《繼續爭氣》 Ritoma (2018)《仁多瑪》 In Search of Perfect Consonance (2016)《尋找完美第五度》 My Voice, My Life (2014)《爭氣》 The Warriors of Qiugang (2010)《仇崗衛士》 Program One: Gold Mountain Dreams Program Two: Between Two Worlds Program Three: No Turning Back

Promises (2001) Autumn in New York (2000) Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (1998)《天浴》 Street Soldier (1997) All Power to the People (1996) A.K.A. Don Bonus (1995) China: The Wild East (1994) The Joy Luck Club (1993)《喜福會》, assistant editor As producer (partial list) Ah Cheung: Wings of Hope (2024)《無拘飛祥》 M for Malaysia (2019) The Last Stitch (2019)《雙縫》 Addicted Innocence (2018) Gateless (2018) China's Forgotten Daughters (2017)《江南棄兒》 Please Remember Me (2015)《我祇認識你》 Fish Stories (2013) Whisper of Minqing (2012) Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (1998)《天浴》

Other

Take Out (2004)《外賣》 China Cry: A True Story (1990)《天國生與死》 Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985)《點心》