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).
In 2003, along with filmmaker Thomas F. Lennon, Yang founded the Chang Ai Media Project to raise HIV/AIDS awareness in China. Since then, its documentaries and public service announcements have been seen by hundreds of millions of Chinese viewers. Lennon and Yang made a trilogy of short documentary films about modern China, including The Blood of Yingzhou District (2006), Tongzhi in Love (2008) and The Warriors of Qiugang (2010), which was nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject in 2011.
Yang lived and worked in San Francisco for many years and relocated to Beijing in 2004. She now lives in Hong Kong. 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."
