Ruby Yang (Director/Editor)
Born in Hong Kong, Ruby Yang moved to San Francisco in 1977 to study painting and filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute. She then embarked on a career in film, editing features and documentaries.In 1997, she directed her first feature documentary, Citizen Hong Kong, followed, in 2000, by the one-hour long documentary China 21. They were shown on PBS stations as part of Asia Pacific Heritage Month. Citizen Hong Kong was also aired in Hong Kong, Taiwan and numerous European outlets. She was both Editor and Associate Producer of Joan Chen's debut feature film Xiu Xiu, The Sent Down Girl, which premiered at the Berlin Festival in 1998 and went on to win seven Golden Horses, Taiwan's equivalent of the Academy Award. Prior work also includes editing Spencer Nakasako's A.K.A. Don Bonus, which aired on P.O.V. and won a national Emmy, and the award-winning All Power to the People! The Black Panther Party and Beyond. In 2000, she directed & edited Silicon Valley, a hugely successful 90 minute documentary for mainland Chinese TV, produced by Eric Xu, the co-founder of Baidu.com. She also served as Series Editor for Bill Moyers' Becoming American - the Chinese Experience which screened on PBS in 2003.

She is now based in Beijing,directing public service announcements and a wide range of documentary work as part of Chang Ai Media Project (formerly the China AIDS Media Project). One of their films, The Blood of Yingzhou District, which she directed, won the 2006 Oscar for Documentary Short Subject at the 79th Academy Awards. Their 2007 documentary short Tongzhi in Love premiered at Frameline Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in June, 2008.

She recently completed A Moment in Time, a one-hour documentary about the experience of the Chinese in San Francisco's Chinatown, told through the films they loved. This new documentary aired on PBS in May, 2010.

Lambert Yam (Producer)
is a pioneer in distributing and exhibiting feature films from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan in North America. A native of Hong Kong, he co-founded the Phoenix Cinematheque there. He managed the World Theatre in San Francisco's Chinatown for ten years, creating new openings for Asian film and serving Chinatown audiences. For nine years he was on the board of the San Francisco Film Festival. A filmmaker himself, he produced both Citizen Hong Kong and China 21. In 2001 he received a scripting grant from the California Council for the Humanities for A Moment in Time, a documentary on movies and Chinatown. The project just received production funding from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and the Center for Asian American Media. Yam is currently based in Beijing with Chang Ai Media Project.

Jon Herbst (Composer)
studied film scoring and jazz performance at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He plays jazz piano in small and large Bay Area ensembles. He has composed music for 25 TV shows and many award-winning films, including Rick Goldsmith’s Tell the Truth and Run (Golden Spire award), Deadly Deception, Debra Chasnoff’s Academy Award-winning documentary, the POV documentary In the Light of Reverence, directed by Toby McLeod, and Ruby Yang’s Citizen Hong Kong. More on the web.

William Smock (Executive Producer)
was Executive Producer for Citizen Hong Kong and China 21, handling funder relations and publicity. Smock produced and edited the American Masters special Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper, originally broadcast in 1997, winner of Best Portrait in the Montreal Festival of Films on Art. More recently, he wrote and edited Jed Riffe's Independent Lens show Who Owns the Past? funded by Native American Public TV.