Freddie Wong
USINFO | 2013-04-24 15:51

 

Freddie Wong (born September 13, 1985) is an American filmmaker, musician, VFX technician and competitive gamer. He maintains two popular YouTube channels, "freddiew" and "freddiew2". He is the older brother of fellow YouTuberJimmy Wong.

Biography
Wong graduated from Lakeside School. He then attended and graduated from the University of Southern CaliforniaSchool of Cinematic Arts. Wong owns and manages Overcrank Media, a Los Angeles based media production company specializing in feature film and online video content, having produced an independent film titled Bear. Wong met his future collaborator Brandon Laatsch in college. They have collaborated with various Hollywood artists, and with video game development companies.

Notable accomplishments
Wong competed in the World Series of Video Games in Dallas in July 2007. He won first prize in the Guitar Hero 2 competition, playing the song "Less Talk More Rokk" by Freezepop.

During MTV's "Gamer's Week" celebration in November 2007, Freddie appeared as a guest on Total Request Live. Participating in the program with his newly-formed band HellanorBrozevelt, Wong was part of a country-wide search to find the best Rock Band ensemble. After receiving tutelage from well-known rockers Good Charlotte, Brozevelt performed at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York against Chicago-based Carrie Me Home.

For the release of Rock Band, the band HellanorBrozevelt was commissioned to play at the Best Buy in Hollywood, CA for the midnight release of the game.

Freddie Wong performed at the first (and only) YouTube Live in San Francisco on November 22, 2008.

He maintains two YouTube channels, with the main channel having over 770 million video views and over 4.1 million subscribers, and the second with 134 million video views and over 1.0 million subscribers. Wong has successfully attracted mainstream attention as well, with Andy Whitfield appearing in a Time Crisis tribute video, Kevin Pollak appearing in a Hypnotism stunt, Shenae Grimes in a romantic gun action scene, Ray William Johnson in a troll infestation video, Eliza Dushku appearing in an action scene, Jon Favreau featuring in his video based on Cowboys & Aliens, the glam metal band Steel Panther appearing in his video based on the Crossfire board game, and Smosh appearing in his video "Huge Guns (with Smosh)".

In 2010 he helped Joe Penna, known as MysteryGuitarMan on YouTube, shoot a commercial for McDonald's, and assisted Wong Fu Productions in actions scenes of Agents of Secret Stuff. In 2011 Wong produced, co-directed, and acted in a TV commercial for Battlefield 3 at the request of Electronic Arts.

Since 2011 he, along with his partners, has worked on the webseriesVideo Game High School, which began releasing episodes on May 11, 2012, the first season finale was released July 5, 2012.

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