Exploitation and The Blood of Yingzhou District

HONG KONG: China is booming in the documentary to do with the spread of digital cameras and the wealth of issues arising from the rapid modernization of the country, Oscar-winning filmmaker Ruby Yang said Wednesday.

The Chinese-American filmmaker who won an Academy Award in 2007 for her short documentary "The Blood of Yingzhou District," said Chinese documentary films were still rare when she moved to Beijing from San Francisco Bay Area in 2004.

"Now I have seen many young independent documentary filmmakers, their work being shown abroad, Europe, New York," Yang told students after a screening of his new film "The Warriors Qiugang" to University of Hong Kong. She added that even the big commercial studios engage in the act with Shanghai Media Group grants to young documentary filmmakers.

"It is very much alive. I think it's the perfect time to make documentaries in China because China is changing so rapidly. There are so many topics that can be done, "Yang said." The quality of films has improved and there is little support (financially) well within China and the outside China for these filmmakers. "

Yang recent work has considered a range of social issues. "The blood of Yingzhou District, which focuses on discrimination against children from rural China who have lost parents to AIDS." Tongzhi in Love, "released in 2008, depicts the situation of Chinese homosexuals dealing conservative parents. "The Warriors Qiugang," which was nominated for best short documentary Oscar this year but did not win, following a successful campaign in a rural village to expel a Chinese chemical plant pollutants.