Timothy Tau
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Biography
Timothy Tau is an award-winning writer, director and producer. Tau is known for Keye Luke (2012), a short film biopic on pioneering Asian American actor and artist Keye Luke (portrayed by Feodor Chin), who played the first on-screen Kato in the 1940s Green Hornet decades before Bruce Lee and who was also the All-American "Number One Son", Lee Chan, in the popular Charlie Chan films of the 1930s. He received a Visual Communications "Armed with a Camera" Fellowship for Emerging Media Artists to make the film, and it has screened at over a dozen film festivals worldwide. Read more... written the surreal short film Incentivus (2012) starring Archie Kao as a writer, and the black-and-white Film Noir/Sci-Fi/Horror genre-bender, The Case (2010).
Tau also won Grand Prize in the Hyphen Asian American Short Story Contest for his short story "The Understudy", which is published in the Winter 2011 Issue of Hyphen Magazine. His short story "Land of Origin" also won Second Place in the 2010 Playboy College Fiction Contest. He is developing both stories and other scripts into feature films.
Tau has also directed music videos and other projects for leading Asian American entertainers such as Megan Lee (Destiny (2011)), Michelle Krusiec, The Fung Brothers of Andrew Fung and David Fung (The Jeremy Lin Effect 2: Linsanity (2012)), as well as rapper Dumbfoundead (aka Parker or Jonathan Park), singer Paul Kim and music producer/composer Scott Chops Jung of The Mountain Brothers (Chops, Paul Kim, Dumbfoundead: No Turning Back (2013)).
Tau also won Grand Prize in the Hyphen Asian American Short Story Contest for his short story "The Understudy", which is published in the Winter 2011 Issue of Hyphen Magazine. His short story "Land of Origin" also won Second Place in the 2010 Playboy College Fiction Contest. He is developing both stories and other scripts into feature films.
Tau has also directed music videos and other projects for leading Asian American entertainers such as Megan Lee (Destiny (2011)), Michelle Krusiec, The Fung Brothers of Andrew Fung and David Fung (The Jeremy Lin Effect 2: Linsanity (2012)), as well as rapper Dumbfoundead (aka Parker or Jonathan Park), singer Paul Kim and music producer/composer Scott Chops Jung of The Mountain Brothers (Chops, Paul Kim, Dumbfoundead: No Turning Back (2013)).
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Senior Project 2014
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Starting from Scratch 2013
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Chink 2013
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Tong Soldier
Chinatown Squad 2012
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James Wong Howe
Keye Luke 2012
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2010 Cape Soiree Red Carpet Event 0
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Interview with Filmmaker Timothy Tau 0
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Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2011 0
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Interview with Timothy Tau and Joshua Murphy of 'Quantum Cops' 0
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Timothy Tau, Feodor Chin and Joshua Murphy of "Quantum Cops" 0
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MoreHorror Interview at 'Quantum Cops' Premiere at Web Series Unplugged 0
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Directing

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James Wong Howe
Keye Luke 2012
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Writing

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James Wong Howe
Keye Luke 2012
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