Design My Career: My Film, My Dream
Design My Career: My Film, My Dream
Speaker: Ruby Yang
Ruby Yang is a noted Chinese American filmmaker whose works in documentary and dramatic film have earned her numerous international awards.
Along with producer Thomas Lennon, Yang founded the Chang Ai Media Project in 2003, producing documentaries and public service announcements to promote AIDS awareness. Chang Ai’s trilogy of short documentary films about modern China, all directed by Yang, include The Blood of Yingzhou District, which won an Oscar in 2007, The Warriors of Qiugang, which received an Academy nomination for best documentary short in 2011, and Tongzhi in Love, which was short-listed in the same category in 2008.
Yang graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with a BFA in painting and an MFA in filmmaking. She is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Date: 23 May 2013 (Thu)
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: A008, HKDI & IVE (Lee Wai Lee), 3 King Ling Road, Tseung Kwan O, New Territories
Conducted in Cantonese, supplemented with English
Limited seats; enrollment on first-come-first-serve basis
Enquiry: 3928 2994