Wong Fu Productions is a Chinese-American YouTuber filmmaking group founded by Wesley Chan (born: April 27, 1984) and Ted Fu (born: October 26, 1981) and Philip Wang (born: October 28, 1984) The trio met at the University of California, San Diego in 2004 and produced a number of music videos and short films released on their website and later YouTube before establishing a professional media company, Sketchbook Media, after their graduation. Their works have been featured at a number of national and international film festivals, including the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, San Diego Asian Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival.
As of April 2021, Wong Fu Productions' YouTube channel has over 3.27 million subscribers and over 584 million video views. Since 2011, Wong Fu has developed a reputation as a springboard for Asian American acting talent.
History[]
According to Philip Wang, Wong Fu Productions was unofficially established in 2001 during his high school junior year at Northgate High School (Walnut Creek, California). Wang mainly utilized his family's digital camcorder to film school projects in collaboration with classmates. In his first year as an undeclared freshman at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Wang and his friends released a music video of Justin Timberlake's song "Señorita". It was the first music video produced by Wang and, although he did not actively promote it, the video was quickly circulated among other fellow college students. The video was circulated in its original computer file format because it was released prior to the advent of the video sharing website YouTube.
In 2004, Wang met classmates Wesley Chan (graduated from Mills High School in 2002) and Ted Fu through a school production, and the trio began working on small scale projects in their spare time and for class assignments. They did not originally consider filmmaking as a career when they entered university; Chan explored an interest in animation, Fu had been a student in electrical engineering and Wang considered a career in economics. After graduation in 2006, the three moved to the Los Angeles area and continued their venture under the professional name Sketchbook Media.
After approximately five years, Wong Fu Productions garnered 1 million subscribers in 2011. On June 8, 2013, Wong Fu Productions celebrated their 10 year anniversary and produced a 13 minute short on June 29 featuring Christine Chen, the surrounding cast of Wong Fu, and many familiar faces, including Ryan Higa, Dominic Sandoval (D-Trix), Kevin Wu (KevJumba), Freddie Wong, Brandon Laatsch, Joe Penna (MysteryGuitarMan) and The Fung Brothers.
On July 23, 2013 Wong Fu Productions launched a second channel titled "More Wong Fu" which is described as "Home of Lunch Break, WF Recess, Failed It, FIRST, bloopers, behind the scenes, and special features. It's, just.. more Wong Fu."
Wong Fu has begun to expand their team of creators. The current team includes Taylor Chan (senior editor / writer and director), Benson Quach (producer / assistant director), Christopher Yang (director of photography), Jessica Lin (production coordinator), and Michelle Hsieh (editor).
Show[]
- Dating After College (2019– ) Comedy, Romance.
- Single by 30 (2016) Comedy, Drama, Romance.
- SHELL (2022)
- Everything Before Us (2015)
- Strangers Never Again (2021)
- Asian Bachelorette 2 (2018)
- Asian Bachelorette (2017)
- How I Became an Adult (2017)
Trivia[]
- The three of them from Chinese descent.
- The trio met at the University of California, San Diego in 2004
- They also collab with other Youtubers including Nigahiga and Rocketjump.
Subscribers Milestone[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
- 100,000 Subscribers: January 29, 2010
- 500,000 Subscribers: January 4, 2011
- 1 million Subscribers: October 30, 2011
- 2 million Subscribers: December 13, 2013
- 3 million Subscribers: December 20, 2017
