Yung Chang

filmmaker

Toronto, CA

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About

Yung Chang is the multi-award-winning director of feature documentaries Up the Yangtze (2007), China Heavyweight (2012), The Fruit Hunters (2013), and This is Not a Movie (2019). His latest, Wuhan Wuhan (2021), world premiered at Hot Docs ’21, won Best International Feature at Doc Edge NZ, qualifying for the Oscars® and is traveling the festival circuit. His Field of Vision short Gatekeeper (2016) is a Vimeo Staff Pick and Pandemic19 (2020) was a Short of the Week and is streaming on Kanopy and World Channel. His first feature script, Eggplant, was a part of the 2018 TIFF Writers Studio and the 2015 Sundance Institute Screenwriting and Directing labs. His films have played top-tier international film festivals and have been broadcast around the world. A graduate of the Meisner acting technique from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in NYC and Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal, Chang's films are recognized for being humanistic stories exploring emotionally complex characters through a cinematic lens. Chang is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the DGC and the WGC. More info at yungfilms.com.

Films

Gatekeeper

DIRECTOR

Wuhan Wuhan

DIRECTOR