Yung Chang is the multi-award-winning director of feature documentaries Up the Yangtze, China Heavyweight, The Fruit Hunters, and This is Not a Movie etc. His latest was nominated for Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary in the 44th News & Documentary Emmy® Awards and qualified for the Oscars®.His films have been critically-acclaimed, receiving awards in Paris, Milan, Vancouver, San Francisco, the Canadian Screen Award, Taiwan Golden Horse (twice), Cinema Eye Honors, among others and have been nominated at Sundance, the Independent Spirit Awards and the Emmys.

Chang is also the recipient of the Don Haig Award, the Yolande and Pierre Perrault Award, and the Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award. In 2013, he was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.