YANG graduated from the prestigious Columbia Film School and is an award-winning editor/director. His thesis film Passing Fancy won the 2008 Directors Guild of America's Student Film Award. Since 2009, he has edited more than a dozen projects ranging from short and feature-length narrative and documentary films, which have won numerous accolades and screened in prominent film festivals worldwide. Ballet in Tandem will be his first feature-length project as a director.