Yung Chang (born 1977) is a Chinese-Canadian director. He has been a member of the directorial collective of the Canadian film production company EyeSteelFilm and is a graduate of the Meisner Acting Technique at Neighbourhood Playhouse in New York as well as of Concordia University in Montreal. Chang's films are known for telling humanistic stories that explore emotionally complex characters through a cinematic lens. Chang has directed several feature films including Up the Yangtze (2007), China Heavyweight (2012), and The Fruit Hunters (2013), about fruit and the fruit trade. In 2015, he was selected to participate in the prestigious Sundance Labs for his first dramatic feature Eggplant. In 2019, he directed _This is Not a Movie _that follows British journalist Robert Fisk. His award-winning short documentary, Pandemic19, co-directed with Annie Katsura Rollins, qualified for the 2021 Academy Awards.
A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze, navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "the river." See it while you can: the Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history. At the river's edge, a young woman says goodbye to her family as the floodwaters rise towards their small homestead. The Three Gorges Dam, contested symbol of the Chin...
A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze, navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "the river." See it while you can: the Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history. At the river's edge, a young woman says goodbye to her family as the floodwaters rise towards their small homestead. The Three Gorges Dam, contested symbol of the Chin...