- Youxin Yang
Youxin Yang (Chinese: 杨有新; pinyin: Yáng Yǒu Xīn), M.D., Ph.D. is an award-winning scientist, award-winning filmmaker, and award-winning painter.
Early career
Dr. Youxin Yang started her career in China and then advanced her
education in France where she was awarded a prize from the Association for the Study of Pediatric Pathology in 1999 for her work on the WT1 Gene in Denys Drash Syndrome and Diffuse Mesangial Sclerosis. [Association pour L’Étude de la Pathologie Pédiatrique PRIX 1999. médicine/sciences 2000, 16: 448-9.http://ist.inserm.fr/BASIS/medsci/fqmb/medsci/DDD/6088.pdf]Awards
"Feuille" (Leaf in English), the first feature film by Dr. Youxin Yang won the top (Platinum) Remi Award at the 37th
WorldFest - Houston International Film Festival. [WorldFest – Houston International Film Festival, winners list 2004. http://www.worldfest.org/downloads/winnerslist2004.pdf] This film tells a story of two female artists: a Chinese painter Meihua (Youxin Yang) and a French photographer Feuille (Sabine Bail). [Feuille at the New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/330536/Feuille/overview] Dr. Youxin Yang was the first Chinese female writer/director/leading actress to win the top Remi Award. Three years later, following 12 awards Feuille has won worldwide acclaim. Leaf (Musical Version), with new images and a new theme song "True Love Has Only One End", written and composed by Dr. Yang herself, won another Remi (Gold) Award at the 40th WorldFest - Houston on April 28th, 2007. [WorldFest – Houston International Film Festival, winners list 2007. www.worldfest.org/downloads/winnerslist2007.xls]She won the "Award of Excellence" in the 2005 Accolade Competition for writing the song "Silent Fire" for her second feature film "Silent Fire", [The Accolade Film Awards, 2005 Awards of Excellence. http://www.accoladecompetition.org/Film/Excell.aspx] which also won Best Score at the New York International Independent Film Festival (2005). [New York International Independent Film & Video Festival, the awards from New York event, November 2005. http://www.nyfilmvideo.com/2005/nynov2005/nyawardsnov2005.html]
She was a Grand Jury Award winner at the New York International Art Festival, 2005. [New York International Art Festival, Grand Jury Award winner 2005. http://www.nyartfestival.com/artads.html]
References
Bibliography
Espace Richelieu (2004). Youxin Yang, M.D. Ph.D. An Artist and Scientist. ISBN 978-0975286609.
External links
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