[ON-DEMAND WEBINAR] In Conversation with Golden Globe and Emmy-Award Winning Hollywood Producer Janet Yang

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

Janet Yang, Founder and President of Janet Yang Productions, is an award-winning Hollywood producer whose film and TV credits include The Joy Luck Club, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Dark Matter, Zero Effect, Shanghai Calling, and High Crimes.  Janet won a Golden Globe and Emmy for her HBO film, Indictment: The McMartin Trial.  She began her career distributing Chinese films in North America and was brought to Hollywood in the 1980’s where she successfully brokered the first sale of Hollywood movies to China since 1949.  She got her start in production working in Shanghai with Steven Spielberg on Empire of the Sun in 1987.  Most recently, Yang served as an executive producer for the acclaimed documentary film Documented, written and directed by journalist Jose Antonio Vargas.  

Join us June 10, to hear Janet tell us her inspirational story, which includes being named one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Hollywood, and discuss her upcoming projects!

Wednesday, June 10, 2020 | 5:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Guest Speaker:

Janet Yang, Founder and President, Janet Yang Productions; Golden Globe and Emmy-Award Winning Hollywood Producer

Moderated by:

Norman Liang, Co-President, AAMA Silicon Valley

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

Featured Speaker:

Janet Yang

A Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning Hollywood producer with deep roots in China, Janet Yang has worked with some of the most formidable directors and actors in the world. She came to prominence through her collaboration with Steven Spielberg on Empire of the Sun (Warner Bros). That was followed by a long partnership with multiple Academy Award-winner Oliver Stone—where she served as Executive Producer on the iconic The Joy Luck Club (Disney), and as a Producer on the Golden Globe-winning The People vs. Larry Flynt (Columbia Pictures).  

She is currently in production on an animated feature based on her original story inspired by the Chinese moon goddess. Iconic animator Glen Keane directs the movie for Netflix and Pearl Studios.  

Among her many other credits are: the Sundance award-winning Dark Matter with Meryl Streep and Chinese star, Liu Ye; The Weight of Water (Lions Gate) directed by Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow; Fox’s High Crimes with Morgan Freeman; a Chinese adaptation of the acclaimed Disney franchise High School Musical; and cult favorites Zero Effect, by Jake Kasdan, and Shanghai Calling with China Film Group.

Yang has been named one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Hollywood” by the Hollywood Reporter.

Yang began her career by running the first distribution company to market Chinese films into North America. She also brokered the reintroduction of American cinema to the Chinese marketplace on behalf of several studios after a decades-long hiatus.

Committed to fostering global understanding, Yang has been a long-standing member of the Committee of 100, and an advisory board member of Asia Society Southern California where he chairs its highly regarded US-ASIA ENTERTAINMENT SUMMIT as well as its nascent AWE: Asian Women Empowered Initiative. She is also a co-founder of #GoldHouse, a leading group of Asians in tech, media and entertainment.

Yang was recently named a Governor of the Academy of Motion Pictures, and serves on a number of its committees.

Yang has been featured in The New York Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Variety, South China Morning Post, Harper’s Bazaar, as well as on numerous television and radio shows across the US and Asia such as CCTV and Beijing TV. She is frequently asked to consult on projects and sought after for public speaking engagements.

Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Yang holds a B.A. from Brown University in Chinese studies and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.

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