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 low self-esteem to blindness, each student confronts...
If you expected class distinctions would vanish in Hong Kong after re-integrating with the Mainland, reality has been profoundly disappointing. For many, the only significant change is the undemocratic governance mandated by Beijing. Last fall, thousands of HK...
by Kevin Taft Contributor Friday Aug 28, 2015 Oscar winner in 2006 for documentary short subject, Director/editor Ruby Yang’s feature-length documentary “My Voice, My Life” is an emotionally powerful must-see. A crowd pleaser on all levels, the film...
by Kevin Taft Contributor Friday Aug 28, 2015 Oscar winner in 2006 for documentary short subject, Director/editor Ruby Yang’s feature-length documentary “My Voice, My Life” is an emotionally powerful...
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...
