by Lia Chang AsAmNews Arts & Entertainment Reporter Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Ruby Yang’s newest film, My Voice, My Life, follows an unlikely group of misfit students from four Hong Kong middle and high schools cast in a musical theater performance. From...
Hong Kong Documentary Focuses on Disadvantaged Students By DEAN NAPOLITANO Oscar-winner Ruby Yang’s new documentary about a group of Hong Kong students involved in a high-school musical seemed far removed from her acclaimed films on social issues facing China. Until...
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...
Ruby Yang is known for her focus on the human condition. Now the filmmaker is planning a fresh look at her ‘highly polarised’ hometown The last time Ruby Yang saw protests like the ones gripping Hong Kong in the past week was the 1967 riots. But she was...
A scene from the documentary “My Voice, My Life,” about Hong Kong high school students trying to stage a musical. One evening in March 2007, the United States ambassador to China, Clark T. Randt Jr., hosted a dinner at his Beijing residence for Xi...
My Voice, My Life is experienced documentarian Ruby Yang‘s ninth feature-length film and one of eight CAAMFest documentaries I watched this year. Yang is best known for her Oscar-winning short The Blood of Yingzhou District. In many ways My...