ANDREW CHING

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Andrew Ching is originally from Pacific Grove, a small town in the Monterey Bay Area of California, and currently lives in San Francisco. As someone who loves film and happens to be a 1st-generation A.B.C. (American-Born Chinese), Andrew struggled with parental-societal career expectations and stereotyping for a good period of time before finally taking the plunge into filmmaking. He began taking filmmaking classes at City College of San Francisco’s Film Production Dept. and set his sights on learning the craft. While there, he founded and ran a film club, Film/Video Arts Society, made some short films, of which a few have screened at some film festivals and in 1997, was awarded as one of three finalists in the American Cinema Editors’ (A.C.E.) Annual Student Competition. In 2003, three of his short films were broadcast on a local PBS TV series “video i.”

As a narrative filmmaker, Andrew is interested in exploring film’s ability to delve into the mystery of the human psyche/behavior and to comment on it. He admires, in particular, the cinematic style of and the psychological suspense found in Alfred Hitchcock’s works and the works of Welles, Kurosawa, Truffaut, Scorsese and Zhang Yimou. His favorite film is Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player. Currently, he is working towards completing an ambitious short film and is seeking funding for an ambitious personal short film project. And he loves cereal.