Awards highlights for '' Up the Yangtze '' include : 2009 Independent Spirit Awards Nominee ; 2009 Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards ; Best Canadian Documentary , 2007 Vancouver International Film Festival ; Best Documentary Feature , 2008 San Francisco International Film Festival ; 2008 Toronto International Film Festival Group Canada 's Top 10 film ; finalist for the IDFA Joris Ivens Award , 2007 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam ; and Grand Jury nominee for Best Documentary in the World Cinema competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival . Yung Chang is also the recipient of the 2008 Yolande and Pierre Perrault award for most promising filmmaker at the 2008 Rendez-vous du cinema québecois ; received the 2008 Don Haig Award at Hot Docs ; and the Charles Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in North Carolina
Vancouver International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
Yung Chang