WSJ: Hong Kong’s 5 Most Essential Films of 2014

By Dean Napolitano Comedy, drama and kung fu. In its golden era of the 1970s and ’80s,  Hong Kong’s movie industry dominated Asia’s cultural landscape. But while the Chinese city’s film industry isn’t flourishing the way it was a generation ago, there still is a lot...

My Voice, My Life

Editor: Amanda Wu My Voice, My Life, directed by Oscar-winning Chinese-American filmmaker Ruby Yang, is an inspirational, realistic film, which premiered in Hong Kong on October 16, 2014. The movie follows the personal journeys of a group of under-privileged Hong Kong...

The Standard: A voice we must all hear

by SIU SAI-WO   The Child Development Initiative Alliance held its first anniversary dinner reception, and Ruby Yang, director of My Voice, My Life, was guest speaker. In fact, Yang has been invited to attend quite a few similar events recently as many social...

NYT blog: Q. and A.: Ruby Yang on Hong Kong Youth and Identity

By EDWARD WONG One evening in March 2007, the United States ambassador to China, Clark T. Randt Jr., hosted a dinner at his Beijing residence for Xi Jinping, who was then the Communist Party chief of Zhejiang Province, in which the two discussed, among other things,...

TimeOut Hong Kong: Q&A: Ruby Yang – My Voice, My Life

Arthur Tam speaks with the Academy Award-winning director Ruby Yang about her new documentary, My Voice, My Life, which looks into the lives of young Hongkongers discovering their identity Hong Kong is not a city known for its documentaries. With a shrinking film...