Talent Guide

Yung Chang

  • Discipline:Director
  • Program Year:Grants and Awards 2016

Bio

Yung Chang is the award-winning director of Up the Yangtze (2007), China Heavyweight (2012), and The Fruit Hunters (2012). He is completing a screenplay for his first dramatic feature, Eggplant, and developing a feature documentary about Robert Fisk, the controversial Middle East correspondent. Chang is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. More info at yungfilms.com

Current Project

The Gatekeeper

Logline

Patrolling a popular tourist destination of steep cliffs that plummet into the Sea of Japan, a retired police officer vigilantly intercepts troubled souls looking to jump, his count of lives saved now over 500.