Biography

Yung Chang is the award-winning director of feature documentaries Up the Yangtze (2007), China Heavyweight (2012), The Fruit Hunters (2013), This is Not a Movie (2019) and Emmy-nominated and Oscar®-qualified, Wuhan Wuhan (2021). Chang is an alumnus of the 2018 TIFF Writers Studio and the 2015 Sundance Institute Screenwriting and Directing Labs for his feature script, Eggplant.

Chang's films have screened at international film festivals including Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, and IDFA and have played theatrically in cinemas around the world. Up the Yangtze was one of the top-grossing documentary releases in 2008. In 2013, China Heavyweight became the most widely screened social-issue documentary in Chinese history with an official release in 200 Mainland Chinese cinemas.

His films have been critically-acclaimed, receiving awards in Paris, Milan, Vancouver, San Francisco, the Canadian Screen Award, two Taiwan Golden Horse awards, Cinema Eye Honors, among others and have been nominated at Sundance, the Independent Spirit Awards, the Emmys and the Toronto Film Critics Awards.

Chang is the recipient of the Don Haig Award, the Yolande and Pierre Perrault Award, and the Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award. He is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada and the Writers Guild of Canada. In 2013, he was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- IMDb mini biography by: Eye Steel Film [ca]