Robin Wang
Directing
Biography
Zhongyu (Robin) Wang is an award-winning director and screenwriter. He graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Highest Distinction) in English and is now an MFA candidate in Film & Television Production at the University of Southern California. Robin was born in Xi'an, China in 1995, and decided to study abroad to pursue his passions for filmmaking. It was in U.S.A. that he gradually picked up his filmmaking professionalism. Till this date, he has completed six narrative shorts that are selected by festivals including Urbanworld, San Jose International Short Film Festival, Chinese American Film Festival, Midsummer Scream Halloween Convention, as well as distribution platforms such as Dekkoo and RokuTV. He has also worked as an intern for development and internet content acquisitions at companies such as Paramount and Tencent.
Known For
In the 1970s, old gangster moll Lou Rolfe is confronted with her involvement in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre orchestrated in 1929 by her former husband, Al Capone's main hit-man, Jack McGurn.
Jack & Lou: A Gangster Love Story
After years of helping euthanize the terminally ill, a "hospice" worker begins to question the ethics of her job.
Black Cat in a Dark Room
Amidst the outbreak of the 1910 Manchurian Plague, a young Chinese doctor must defy prejudices of both the East and the West to champion his groundbreaking theory about the disease's deadly evolution.
Neither Donkey Nor Horse
Tired of getting pushed and punished by his own parents, Wei-Lai, an 11-year-old Chinese American boy, decides to show up at his best friend's family and offers himself up for their adoption.
Wei-Lai
Hazel is a lonely little girl who struggles to make friends. One day, while in the library with her father, she wanders into a deserted room where she finds a mystical spell book. Within the magical tome, Hazel discovers a spell that she believes will allow her to summon a friend, but, she accidentally misreads it and summons a ferocious demon named Dantalion, who must help Hazel to find a real companion before he slinks back to the underworld...
Summon a Fiend
In a cold, lonely motel room, two boys who came out to their parents form a special, self-affirming bond.
Blind Chance
In 2006, Mallory Newell was sexually assaulted on her 21st birthday. The next day she underwent a painful rape kit exam to collect clinical evidence. The police shelved her rape kit and evaded her for three years. Valerie continues to advocate for other survivors' rights, when she is called upon to become the key witness in the 2010 Senate Hearing. In the moments before she testifies, she musters the strength to re-live what got her to where she sits now, at the podium to speak in one of the greatest courts of the US, her voice finally heard.
Backlog
Following a graduation celebration, four Chinese must navigate their relationships' future as dictated by the circumstances of life and their families.
Graduation
A lonely, widowed man whose partner died twenty years ago has given up his life mourning and praying for his return --- until one day he actually does.