freshmen filmmaker Tom Huang bio / filmography

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Tom Huang is the complete filmmaker - he writes, directs, edits and acts in his own films. His latest project, freshmen, is an independent feature which he produced, wrote, directed, and had to somewhat sneak by his professors as a 50-minute short to get it made. With the use of the school's equipment as well as his nine credit cards, Tom was able to stretch his dollar and complete freshmen -- his first full length feature (www.freshmenthefilm.com).

The film, which follows the lives of four college freshmen, has already won the Audience Award for Best Feature at the 1999 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, the Final Draft Original Screenplay Award at the 1999 Rhode Island International Film Fest, and earned a nomination for best independent feature at the 2000 aMedia Ammy Awards. The film has finished a highly successful 14 festival run and will open in Los Angeles on April 26th, 2002. Daily Variety touted the film as "a solid calling card for debuting director Tom Huang and his fresh-faced, very likable young cast" while the Arizona Daily Sun praised, "freshmen is a touching film , and it deserves to be seen by as many people as possible."

Before freshmen, Tom filmed Closed Quarters, a 16-mm, 43-minute drama about the relationship of two roommates whose lives clash. Closed Quarters won a Certificate of Merit from the 1996 Chicago International Film Festival.

Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area (Fremont, CA), Tom spent his undergraduate years studying creative writing at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has dabbled in stand-up comedy, improvisational comedy troupes, and has written and produced in his own comedy sketch cable television show, "No Permanent Damage," with current TV writers Steve Callaghan (Family Guy, the Freshmen) and Patrick Meighan (Titus). Tom received his Masters of Fine Arts degree in Film Production from Loyola Marymount University. Before attending the Graduate Film Program at LMU, he worked in development with Michael Phillips Productions (Taxi Driver, The Sting) and Longview Entertainment (The Air Up There, Clockers), headed by Rosalie Swedlin.

Tom has recently completed shooting It Wasn't Supposed to Be Like This with Sandra Oh (Arli$$) and Marie Matiko (Art of War, Sum of All Fears), and is producing and acting in Victor Vu's independent feature, First Morning. His next feature project is tentatively titled Who is Johnny Wang?, an independent drama/action, and he has just finished a commercial thriller feature script, The President's Daughter.

freshmen, 16mm 121 minute color feature film (W/D/A)
winner, Audience Award for Best Feature,
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
winner, Final Draft Original Screenplay Award,
Rhode Island International Film Festival
winner, Silver Award, Low Budget Feature Film,
WorldFest Flagstaff Film Festival
finalist nominee, the Ammy Awards, Best Independent Feature,
aMedia Ammy Awards

the Presidents of the United States of America World Tour, concert film on DVD (D)

Nuthin' But Luv, music video for the Presidents of the United States of America (D)

It Wasn't Supposed to be Like This..., digital 24 minute color short (W/D/A), in post