WongFu Productions

Meeting in college and being in the same program, Philip Wang, Ted Fu, and Wesley Chan began to work together and created the company Wong Fu Productions.  This team has been creating videos as posting them online long before YouTube was created.  Before graduating from UC San Diego, Wong Fu Productions released their first full-length movie A Moment with You.  After graduating, WFP moved to Los Angeles to pursue their company; they have also began to do college tours to promote their movie and to meet fans.  Soon after, they have created their own t-shirt brand and the “AreYouANiceGuy” store because fans have been asking where they can get a shirt that Phil was wearing, designed by Wes, in their mini series “Just a Nice Guy.”  In 2009, WFP met David Choi, another YouTube artist, through friends and made his first music video to his song “That Girl.”  After meeting David Choi, they have also met other YouTube personalities such as Kevin Wu “KevJumba,” Christine Gambito “HappySlip,” Cathy Nguyen, and Ryan Higa “NigaHiga,” each who they have worked with on various projects.  WFP has also started a partnership with Far*East Movement and created the ISA (International Secret Agents) Concert series that had featured popular YouTube personalities, well known performers (B.O.B, Sean Kingston, and Roshon Fegan), and winners of MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew Poreotics and I.aM.mE. Recently, WFP has worked with international pop star Leehom Wang for his new music video “Still In Love With You.”  Phil, Ted, and Wes had no intention of having their company to become what it is now.

 

Wong Fu Productions most recent mini-series  about coming home to an interracial family

Now, since these three are Asian-American, they do incorporate their race in their videos.  One of their first videos they made while in UCSD, “Yellow Fever” was about how Asian girls can get a white guy for a boyfriend, but a Asian guy can’t get a white girlfriend.  The video follows Phil as he finds explanations of why this is so.  In the process, we see Phil having no luck in finding a reason and getting a girl, even though he has tried everything Andrew, his white friend, has told him to do.  As years went on, they still include their race in their videos.  Recently after hitting one million subscribers, they’ve created a video for this occasion of how they should celebrate this milestone:  visit their one-millionth subscriber.  When discussing who the person will be, they automatically assume that the person is an Asian girl.  After debating who the person will be, they made the visit.  It turned out that their one-millionth subscriber was an Asian male who despised them for causing his long-time girlfriend to break up with him because of their short Strangers Again.  WFP have started to release their new short series Home is Where the Hans Are.  A series about a son, coming home from a two-year absence, learns that his family is now an interracial one.  It shows how Derek, the son, is coping with the news.

With each person that WFP have met, they have work together.  Shortly after meeting Kevjumba they worked on a mini series called Funemployed, which also featured a cameo from NigaHiga.  They also made a short film with Ryan Higa called Agents of Secret Stuff, that have included cameos from more of their friends:  D-trix, Arden Cho, and Smosh.  With all the success that they have reached so far shows that with the support of fans, they can achieve great things.  WFP is apart of the “YouTube” community, especially in the Asian-American community.  This company has shown that with talent, you can be known on almost a mainstream media aspect, even if it is just YouTube.