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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.
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