Yung Chang (simplified Chinese: 张侨勇; traditional Chinese: 張僑勇; pinyin: Zhāng Qiáo Yǒng) (born 1977) is a Chinese Canadian film director.
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Internationally award-winning filmmaker, Yung Chang, made his first feature documentary, “Up The Yangtze” 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 will have its premiere at Sundance 2012 in the World Documentary competition. Chang is also in production on “The Fruit Hunters”, a feature documentary about nature, commerce and obsession in the fruit underworld. Slated for a Fall 2012 release. He 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.
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