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Yung Chang is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Editor Canadien born on 1977 at Oshawa (Canada)
Yung Chang (simplified Chinese: 张侨勇; traditional Chinese: 張僑勇; pinyin: Zhāng Qiáo Yǒng) (born 1977) is a Chinese Canadian film director and part of the collective member directors of Canadian film production firm EyeSteelFilm
Awards highlights for Up the Yangtze include: 2009 Independent Spirit Awards Nominee; 2009 Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards; Best Canadian Documentary, 2007 Vancouver International Film Festival; Best Documentary Feature, 2008 San Francisco International Film Festival; 2008 Toronto International Film Festival Group Canada’s Top 10 film; finalist for the IDFA Joris Ivens Award, 2007 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam; and Grand Jury nominee for Best Documentary in the World Cinema competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Yung Chang is also the recipient of the 2008 Yolande and Pierre Perrault award for most promising filmmaker at the 2008 Rendez-vous du cinema québecois; received the 2008 Don Haig Award at Hot Docs; and the Charles Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in North Carolina.
China Heavyweight《千錘百煉》won the prestigious Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary in 2012, considered the equivalent of a Chinese Oscar. At the 2012 Milano Film Festival, it garnered the top award for Best Film.
The Fruit Hunters premiered at the International Documentary Festival (IDFA) in Amsterdam and the Berlinale Film Festival in 2013. It won the Best Film award at the 2013 Environmental Film Festival in Paris.
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Yung Chang
Biography
Internationally award-winning filmmaker, Yung Chang, made his first feature documentary, Up the Yangtze《沿江而上》 in 2007. The film used China's highly contested Three Gorges Dam as a dramatic backdrop for a moving and richly detailed narrative of a peasant family negotiating unprecedented historic changes. Up the Yangtze played at numerous festivals, including Sundance, and was one of the top-grossing documentary box office releases in 2008. China Heavyweight 《千錘百煉》, Chang's sophomore film, is about a boxing coach and his two students in rural China fighting to become amateur and professional champions. The film had its premiere at Sundance 2012 in the World Documentary competition. It is distributed by Zeitgeist Films. In the same year, Chang also completed The Fruit Hunters, a feature documentary about nature, commerce and obsession in the fruit underworld. The film is distributed by Cinedigm New Video. Chang is writing Eggplant, his first feature film, about a Chinese wedding photographer.Awards highlights for Up the Yangtze include: 2009 Independent Spirit Awards Nominee; 2009 Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards; Best Canadian Documentary, 2007 Vancouver International Film Festival; Best Documentary Feature, 2008 San Francisco International Film Festival; 2008 Toronto International Film Festival Group Canada’s Top 10 film; finalist for the IDFA Joris Ivens Award, 2007 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam; and Grand Jury nominee for Best Documentary in the World Cinema competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Yung Chang is also the recipient of the 2008 Yolande and Pierre Perrault award for most promising filmmaker at the 2008 Rendez-vous du cinema québecois; received the 2008 Don Haig Award at Hot Docs; and the Charles Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in North Carolina.
China Heavyweight《千錘百煉》won the prestigious Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary in 2012, considered the equivalent of a Chinese Oscar. At the 2012 Milano Film Festival, it garnered the top award for Best Film.
The Fruit Hunters premiered at the International Documentary Festival (IDFA) in Amsterdam and the Berlinale Film Festival in 2013. It won the Best Film award at the 2013 Environmental Film Festival in Paris.
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Up the Yangtze (2007)
, 1h33Directed by Yung Chang
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about technology, Political films
Actors Yung Chang
Rating74%
The setting of the film is a riverboat cruise ship floating up the Yangtze river. Two young people are the focus of the film as they work aboard the ship. One is a sixteen-year-old girl from a particularly poor family living on the banks of the Yangtze near Fengdu, named "Cindy" Yu Shui. She is followed as she leaves her family to work on one of the cruise ships serving wealthy western tourists at the same time as her family is being forced from their home due to the flooding that accompanied the building of the dam. The film shows her acclimatization to the consumer economy of tourism as well as modern technology of the cruise ships, juxtaposed with her family and other older citizens who are displaced from a rural lifestyle to cities where they must pay for the vegetables they used to grow on their own.
Director
China Heavyweight (2012)
, 1h30Directed by Yung Chang
Origin Chine
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Documentary films about sports, Le boxe anglaise
Rating62%
In 1959, Mao Zedong had imposed a ban on the sport of boxing in China considering it "too Western and brutal". The ban was lifted in 1987 and boxing began being taught in schools.
The Fruit Hunters (2012)
Directed by Yung Chang
Genres Documentary
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about environmental issues
Actors Bill Pullman
Rating67%
Up the Yangtze (2007)
, 1h33Directed by Yung Chang
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about technology, Political films
Actors Yung Chang
Rating74%
The setting of the film is a riverboat cruise ship floating up the Yangtze river. Two young people are the focus of the film as they work aboard the ship. One is a sixteen-year-old girl from a particularly poor family living on the banks of the Yangtze near Fengdu, named "Cindy" Yu Shui. She is followed as she leaves her family to work on one of the cruise ships serving wealthy western tourists at the same time as her family is being forced from their home due to the flooding that accompanied the building of the dam. The film shows her acclimatization to the consumer economy of tourism as well as modern technology of the cruise ships, juxtaposed with her family and other older citizens who are displaced from a rural lifestyle to cities where they must pay for the vegetables they used to grow on their own.
Scriptwriter
China Heavyweight (2012)
, 1h30Directed by Yung Chang
Origin Chine
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Documentary films about sports, Le boxe anglaise
Rating62%
In 1959, Mao Zedong had imposed a ban on the sport of boxing in China considering it "too Western and brutal". The ban was lifted in 1987 and boxing began being taught in schools.
The Fruit Hunters (2012)
Directed by Yung Chang
Genres Documentary
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about environmental issues
Actors Bill Pullman
Rating67%
Up the Yangtze (2007)
, 1h33Directed by Yung Chang
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about technology, Political films
Actors Yung Chang
Roles Author
Rating74%
The setting of the film is a riverboat cruise ship floating up the Yangtze river. Two young people are the focus of the film as they work aboard the ship. One is a sixteen-year-old girl from a particularly poor family living on the banks of the Yangtze near Fengdu, named "Cindy" Yu Shui. She is followed as she leaves her family to work on one of the cruise ships serving wealthy western tourists at the same time as her family is being forced from their home due to the flooding that accompanied the building of the dam. The film shows her acclimatization to the consumer economy of tourism as well as modern technology of the cruise ships, juxtaposed with her family and other older citizens who are displaced from a rural lifestyle to cities where they must pay for the vegetables they used to grow on their own.
Editor
Last Train Home (2009)
, 1h25Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Documentary films about technology
Rating75%
Every spring, China's 130 million migrant workers travel back to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This exodus is the world's largest human migration.