Ruby Yang is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker born in Hong Kong. Over her 35-year career, she has worked in the U.S., Beijing, and Hong Kong, earning an Oscar for Best Documentary Short (2007), along with Academy Award and Emmy nominations, and international honors such as the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism Award.
Since 2013, she has served as the Hung Leung Hau Ling Distinguished Fellow in Humanities at HKU’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC), where she founded the Hong Kong Documentary Initiative to nurture emerging local filmmakers. On 1 July 2024, she became the Director of JMSC.

楊紫燁是奧斯卡得獎導演，生於香港，過去 35 年曾於美國、北京及香港從事電影工作。她憑紀錄短片榮獲 2007 年奧斯卡金像獎，並多次獲得奧斯卡提名、艾美獎提名及國際獎項，包括 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia 新聞獎。
她於2013年加入香港大學新聞及傳媒研究中心，出任「孔梁巧玲傑出人文學者」，並於2015年創辦「香港紀錄片拓展計劃」，積極培育本地紀錄片人才。2024年7月1日起，她正式升任為中心總監。

Ruby YANG 楊紫燁

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