Wong Fu Productions @ Philip Wang, Wesley Chan & Ted Fu - Team Asians

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Let’s start off with a little history of Wong Fu Productions. It all started with Philip Wang when he was still in high-school. The name Wong Fu is a nickname that Philip was given when he was in the seventh grade. It was nothing big at first, until he met his classmates Wesley Chan and Ted Fu through a school production in 2004. The trio began working on small scale projects in their spare time and for class assignments. They did not originally consider film-making as a career when they entered university; Wesley explored an interest in animation, Fu had been a student in electrical engineering while Philip himself considered a career in economics. After graduation in 2006, the three moved to LA area and continued their venture under the professional name Sketchbook Media. And after 5 years of hard work, Wong Fu Production finally hit 1 million subscribers in 2011. 

How I got myself into Wong Fu Productions? This I have to relate back to Jin Lim. If you watch one of Jin’s video “Abuden”, there was a scene shot at Hitz.fm. The one who answered Jin’s call is Philip Wang, the other one with glasses who answered Jin with “No, this is Narnia” with a magnetic voice (well obviously he’s my favourite ) is Wesley Chan. I searched for Wesley at first, and then I was linked to Wong Fu Productions. So, because of Jin and Wesley, I gotta know this awesome group of film-makers.

My first view of Wong Fu Productions was the sketch “Hugger”, which I still find it funny till now. These are some my favourite funny sketches (watch it here): Real Friends, Buffet, Our Summer Flop, Hot Lava, The Screen Test

Besides sketches, Wong Fu Productions also came up with a lot of beautiful shorts which hit millions of views in a short time. Some of these shorts even made it into well-known international film awards such as Cannes Film Festival, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and San Diego Asian Film Festival. These are some of my all time favorites: Shell (Official Trailer for 2011 Seoul International Extreme-Short Image and Film Festival), Strangers again, These Four Walls, The Last (ft. Harry Shum Jr.)

If you’re looking for something more relaxing, there’s Wong Fu Weekends! Release on every weekends (Duh!), members of Wong Fu teach you their way of baking a cake, doing laundry, making gingerbread houses, cooking Ramen and some other daily routine staff (most of the time). Wong Fu Productions were also involved in some charity events such as The Supply Cup soccer game & ISA Charity Basketball Game.

They also released a new web series together with AT&T recently, called "When It Counts", starring Philip Wang himself, and other superb dancers like Yuri Tag, Mike Song and Anthony Lee. 

When It Counts Ep. 1

When It Counts Ep. 2

When It Counts Ep. 3

When It Counts Ep. 4 Finale

All of the vids featured are linked, so you may just click and watch some of their best vids recommended by me. Visit their official website http://wongfuproductions.com for more of them (Blogs, their own products: http://areyouaniceguy.com/) or follow them on twitter / facebook. Or even better, subscribe Wong Fu Productions channel on youtube to get more of their vids.