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Academy Award-winning Director Ruby Yang to screen film and meet with an audience at HKU

24 Mar 2011

 

Academy Award-winning director Ruby Yang will screen her 2011 Academy Award-nominated short documentary, The Warriors of Qiugang at The University of Hong Kong on Wednesday, 30 March, 2011.  She will meet and take questions from the audience after the screening.

Yang's film tells the story of villagers in central China, who challenge a chemical company that is poisoning their air, water and land. As black waters disgorged from the plants and flooded the fields of Qiugang, fish died, crops failed, and villagers grew alarmed by the large numbers of their own succumbing to cancer. For five years they fight to transform their environment and as they do, they find themselves transformed as well.  For plot synopsis (English & Chinese) and more about the film, please visit: http://www.warriorsofqiugang.com/

Ruby Yang & Thomas Lennon won an Oscar in 2006 for their documentary, The Blood of Yingzhou District.

Details for the event:

Date:       Wednesday, 30 March, 2011
Time:        1:00 - 2:30pm
Venue:     P4, Chong Yuet Ming Physics Building, The University of Hong Kong

Note: The film duration is 39 minutes, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.  The film is in Chinese with English subtitles.

JMSC Associate Professor Dr. Miklos Sukosd and Visiting Associate Professor Nancy Tong, who is a documentary filmmaker herself, will join Yang for a lively discussion with the audience after the screening.

About the Director:
Ruby Yang is an Academy Award-winning Chinese-American filmmaker whose work in documentary and dramatic film has earned her numerous international awards, including an Oscar. She lives and works in Beijing. In 2003, along with producer Thomas Lennon, Yang founded the Chang Ai Media Project to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS in China. Since then, its documentaries and public service announcements have been seen more than 900 million times. The Blood of Yingzhou District, which Yang directed as part of the project, won the 2006 Academy Award for Documentary Short. The project's second documentary short, Tongzhi in Love, was released in June 2008. In August 2010, Yang and Lennon completed the project's third documentary short, The Warriors of Qiugang.

For enquiries regarding this event, please contact JMSC's Kylie Chan at 22194416 or kyliec@hku.hk

This screening is part of the Environmental Film Series, hosted by Journalism and Media Studies Centre.  To learn more about the JMSC, visit http://jmsc.hku.hk