By Iain Blair

Met up with one of the Internet’s most popular stars, Wong Fu Productions, at Jerry’s Deli in Woodland Hills. If you aren’t aware of these guys yet, for all things Wong Fu, visit their website: www.wongfuproductions.com and get on board. Their most popular video Yellow Fever has over 5 million total views and their site gets 1 million hits a month!!!  This hot independent production company is composed of three friends who met and began to work together in college - Wesley Chan, Ted Fu, and Philip Wang - each of whom bring a variety of skills, knowledge, and talent to the group.  With strengths in design, photography, animation, writing, and directing, the trio has combined these artistic talents with a keen business sense and marketing acumen to create and build an immense following and fan base.

Millions of viewers have tuned in from all over the world to watch their shorts and music videos online and thousands have attended their events on college campuses across the country, including MIT, Yale and Harvard. As Philip says, “the traditional Asian stereotype goes to the two extremes – it’s either all about martial arts, or the kids become lawyers, engineers, doctors and so on. But this is a whole new creative path, and we almost feel like a rock band, with loyal fans who follow us around.”

Wong Fu are at the crest of a whole Asian-American movement, and are quickly making a name for themselves beyond the Internet with the recent announcement of their first major feature film project, tentatively titled THE SLEEP SHIFT. Written and directed by Wong Fu Productions, it is currently in pre-production and will begin shooting later this year. Their two short films also appeared in the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival this year. I predict these guys are going to be HUGE.

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