Winner of the 79th Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject
Head of Jury Panel of the SmallRig Awards
Ruby Yang, born in Hong Kong and educated in the U.S., holds master's degrees in painting and film production. She won the 79th Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for The Blood of Yingzhou District in 2007 and served as a jury for the 83rd Academy Award in 2011. She is the editor of the series Becoming American: The Chinese Experience, which received four Emmy nominations. Since 2013, she has been the Hung Leung Hau Ling Distinguished Fellow in Humanities at the University of Hong Kong, teaching documentary production at the university's Journalism and Media Studies Centre.