Age, Biography and Wiki
Yung Chang was born on 1977 in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, is a Film director. Discover Yung Chang's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 46 years old?
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Film director |
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46 years old |
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, 1977 |
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Oshawa, Ontario, Canada |
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Canada |
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Yung Chang Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Yung Chang Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Yung Chang worth at the age of 46 years old? Yung Chang’s income source is mostly from being a successful Film director. He is from Canada. We have estimated
Yung Chang's net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Film director |
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Timeline
This is Not a Movie, his feature documentary about prolific Middle East correspondent, Robert Fisk, had its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. It was co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
His documentary short, Gatekeeper, was released in 2016 and is streaming on Field of Vision, Laura Poitras' curated online film unit. It centers around retired police officer, Yukio Shige, and his work on preventing suicides around Tōjinbō, an infamous location for suicides in Japan. Gatekeeper won Best Short Documentary at the LA Film Festival in 2016, qualifying for the Oscars.
In the same year, Chang also completed The Fruit Hunters, a feature documentary about exotic fruit cultivators, preservationists, and the history of fruits. The Fruit Hunters premiered at the International Documentary Festival (IDFA) in Amsterdam and the Berlinale Film Festival in 2013. It won the Best Film award at the 2013 Environmental Film Festival in Paris.
Chang released his sophomore film, China Heavyweight, in 2012. It is about a boxing coach and his two students in rural China fighting to become amateur and professional champions. The film premiered at Sundance 2012 in the World Documentary competition. Like its predecessor, China Heavyweight also won the Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary in 2012.
Yung Chang is also the recipient of the 2008 Yolande and Pierre Perrault award for most promising filmmaker at the 2008 Rendez-vous du cinema québecois; 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.
Chang released his first feature length documentary, Up the Yangtze in 2007. The film highlights the repercussions of building the Three Gorges Dam and the economic effect on rural families. It was one of the top-grossing documentary box office releases in 2008 and garnered numerous awards, including the 2009 Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary.
Chang is a graduate of Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal (BFA 99), the Neighbourhood Playhouse School of the Theatre (2003), the Canadian Film Center (2009), and the Directors and Screenwriters Lab at the Sundance Institute (2015). He was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2013 and is currently an active member.
Chang released the medium length documentary, Earth to Mouth, in 2002 with the National Film Board of Canada. It revolves around migrant Mexican worker working on a Chinese operated farm in south-east Ontario.
Yung Chang (born 1977) is a Chinese Canadian film director and was part of the collective member directors of Canadian film production firm EyeSteelFilm.
Chang is a fan of cinéma vérité, taking influences from films released by the National Film Board of Canada in the 1950s and 1960s, such as Lonely Boy (film), and Allan King's "actuality drama" filmography.
