# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruby-yang
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:49:43.975Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruby-yang"
name: "Ruby Yang"
slug: "ruby-yang"
description: "Ruby Yang is an accomplished Hong Kong-born American filmmaker and educator who currently heads the School of Future Media at the University of Hong Kong. Yang's work as a documentary filmmaker has earned her an Academy Award, two Academy nominations, and numerous other accolades, including an Emmy, the DuPont-Columbia Journalism Award, FilmAid Asia's Humanitarian Award, the Global Health Council Media Award and two IDA Pare Lorentz Award nominations. Since joining HKU in 2013, Yang has taught documentary filmmaking at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre and completed four documentaries. In 2015, she was honored with an Honorary Fellowship from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts for her achievements and contributions to the performing arts. In 2018, she received the prestigious Artist of the Year (Film) award at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards, recognizing her impact as a documentarian."
tagline: "Chinese-American film editor, film director and film producer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.32
  momentum:             1.751054852320675
  historical:           6.353385333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002548/"
    handle:    "nm0002548"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A5%8A%E7%B4%AB%E7%87%81"
    title: "楊紫燁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Yang"
    title: "Ruby Yang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Yang"
    title: "Ruby Yang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Yang"
    title: "Ruby Yang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Yang"
    title: "Ruby Yang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B8"
    title: "Ян, Руби"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3426152"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66168"
    title: "Ruby Yang"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump