Director Ruby Yang doesn’t even try to upend the clichés that practically define the kind of inspirational documentary she’s made about art transforming the lives of at-risk and disabled students. She embraces them while pushing the film toward an...
“My Voice, My Life,” a documentary from Ruby Yang, focuses on students who are not high achievers preparing for a musical. MY VOICE, MY LIFE Opens on Friday Directed by Ruby Yang In Cantonese, with English subtitles 1 hour 31 minutes; not rated There are...
Exciting news! “My Voice, My Life” will be showing in Los Angeles and New York from August 28 to September 10. Don’t miss it! Want to know more about “My Voice, My Life”? Visit our website: http://WWW.MYVOICEMYLIFEMOVIE.COM/ Follow us on...
by George Heymont San Francisco-based arts critic Over the years, acting has been hailed as a noble profession by some and equated with prostitution by others. Whether or not participants will get paid for their services is often in doubt. Yet there is no question...
by Patrick Frater When Ruby Yang was nominated in the best newcomer section of the Hong Kong Directors’ Guild last month, she giggled. After all, she won an Academy Award in 2007 for her documentary short “The Blood of Yingzhou District,” about a Chinese orphan who...
Oscar Award-winning filmmaker Ruby Yang is back with a gripping, emotional documentary about struggling students from Hong Kong’s lower tier schools who pour their hearts and souls into producing a musical. Led by a tough but loving instructor, the students have...
My Voice, My Life (爭氣 | Hong Kong 2014 | in Cantonese | 91 min. | Documentary) At last year’s CAAMFest, Wu Hao’s documentary “The Road to Fame” (成名之路 2013) tells a story about a group of talented students from a prestige drama university in...
by Melanie Leung Lin Tsz-nok was on a roll. Everything he said cracked up the audience, and that’s how he won the secondary school category of Hong Kong’s second Thanksgiving Stand-up Comedy Competition, organised by the charity group Dreams Possible. That’s quite an...
“My Voice, My Life” is in theaters now. Hong Kong Broadway – CINEMATHEQUE 26-Jan (Mon) 9:45pm 31-Jan (Sat) 2:00pm 3-Feb (Tue) 8:00pm 7-Feb (Sat) 6:00pm
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...
