11 Facts About Yung Chang

Yung Chang is a Chinese Canadian film director and was part of the collective member directors of Canadian film production firm EyeSteelFilm.

Yung Chang is a graduate of Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal, the Neighbourhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, the Canadian Film Center, and the Directors and Screenwriters Lab at the Sundance Institute .

Yung Chang was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2013 and is currently an active member.

Yung Chang grew up in Whitby, Ontario as one of few children of color.

Yung Chang was later sent to boarding school at Upper Canada College.

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Yung Chang released the medium length documentary, Earth to Mouth, in 2002 with the National Film Board of Canada.

Yung Chang released his first feature length documentary, Up the Yangtze in 2007.

Yung Chang released Pandemic19 co-directed with his wife, Annie Katsura Rollins, executive produced by Jean Tsien, edited by Xi Feng and lensed by Derek Howard.

Yung Chang wrote the neo-noir romantic screenplay for Eggplant«??», his first narrative feature, about a wedding photographer's happenstance encounter with his swindler ex-girlfriend.

Yung Chang is a fan of cinema verite, taking influences from films released by the National Film Board of Canada in the 1950s and 1960s, such as Lonely Boy, and Allan King's "actuality drama" filmography.

Yung Chang is the recipient of the 2008 Yolande and Pierre Perrault award for most promising filmmaker at the 2008 Rendez-vous du cinema quebecois; received the 2008 Don Haig Award at Hot Docs; and the Charles Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in North Carolina.