Janet Yang
| Janet Yang | |
|---|---|
| Chinese name | 楊燕子 (traditional) |
| Chinese name | 杨燕子 (simplified) |
| Born |
July 13, 1956 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Producer/Entertainment and Media Consultant |
| Years active | 1985-present |
| Children | 1 |
Janet Yang (born July 13, 1956) is a Hollywood producer.
Her award-winning film and TV credits include The Joy Luck Club, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Dark Matter, Indictment: The McMartin Trial, Zero Effect, Shanghai Calling, and High Crimes.
Born Janet Yang in Queens, New York, Yang holds a B.A. from Brown University in Chinese studies and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. Yang was President of World Entertainment in San Francisco. She revived this small, local distributor of Hong Kong films, expanded it into exhibition, and was able to garner exclusive representation rights in North America for all films produced in the People's Republic of China. These films included filmmakers Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, among others. From there, Yang began her career in Hollywood.
Her first producing effort was the documentary film, East to West: America Through the Eyes of a Chinese. The film documents the journey by car across America of two Mainland Chinese students who meet ordinary, and some extraordinary (Muhammad Ali, Studs Terkel), Americans. Featured on Charles Kuralt's Good Morning, America, and sold to the Disney Channel to acclaimed reviews, East to West also brought together a cast and crew from greater China, including Director Ang Lee as its sound man.
Yang's career in Hollywood started when she was hired by several major studios to re-introduce American cinema to the Chinese marketplace after a long hiatus. From 1985 to 1987, she represented three major studios — Universal, Paramount, and MGM/United Artists — and was able to broker the first sale of American studio movies to China since 1949.
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