Janet Yang was born on July 13,1956 and is an American film producer and the current President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
21 Facts About Janet Yang
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Janet Yang was born on July 13,1956, in Queens, New York.
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Janet Yang attended Phillips Exeter Academy, then Brown University, where she focused on Chinese Studies, followed by an MBA from Columbia University.
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Janet Yang revived this small, local distributor of Hong Kong films, expanded it into exhibition, and was able to garner exclusive representation rights in North America for all films produced in the People's Republic of China.
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Janet Yang's first producing effort was the documentary film, East to West: America Through the Eyes of a Chinese.
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Janet Yang was hired by several major studios to re-introduce American cinema to the Chinese marketplace after a long hiatus.
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Janet Yang then segued into a production position at Universal, supervising Spielberg's Amblin account.
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Janet Yang served as executive producer of the groundbreaking film The Joy Luck Club, based on the best-selling novel by Amy Tan and directed by Wayne Wang.
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Janet Yang executive produced Indictment: The McMartin Trial for which she won both Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Made for Television Movie.
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Janet Yang served as the Managing Director in charge of creative content and production at Tang Media Partners.
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Janet Yang produced the acclaimed film Dark Matter, directed by Chen Shi-Zheng and starring Chinese actor Liu Ye and Meryl Streep.
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In 2009, Janet Yang was sought out by Disney Studios to produce High School Musical for Chinese audiences.
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Janet Yang was as an Executive Producer on the film, Documented, written and directed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas.
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On May 3,2020, Janet Yang served as a guest speaker at Asia Society's "Stand Against Racism in the Time of COVID" forum, alongside guests such as Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Representative Ted Lieu.
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On July 19th, 2022, Janet Yang was feted at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures with a pillar named in her honor.
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Janet Yang is the first Asian American woman to have a pillar at the museum.
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Janet Yang is the President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; a member of the Committee of 100, an organization of prominent Chinese-Americans; an advisory board member of Asia Society Southern California; the National Committee on US-China Relations and an advisory board member of CAPE, the Coalition of Asian-Pacific Americans in Entertainment.
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Janet Yang has taught producing at the Sundance Institute and the Independent Feature Project.
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Janet Yang is involved with a number of arts, community and political organizations.
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Janet Yang is a co-founder of Gold House, a collective of influential Asians across entertainment, technology, lifestyle, and business.
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Janet Yang has been recognized with a Presidential Fellowship at Loyola Marymount University.