Freddie Wong

Freddie Wong was born in Seattle, Washington on 13 September 1985. He went to ‘Lakeside School ‘situated in his hometown and did his graduation from ‘University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts’. Freddie is an advisor to his younger sibling, Jimmy Wong who is a YouTuber and actor as well as stars in ‘Video Game High School’.

The fact that Freddie Wong as a youngster had made up his mind to excel as a filmmaker and a VFX specialist is evident from his choice of major in graduation. Wong earned his graduation degree from the ‘School of Cinematic Arts’ affiliated to USC (University of Southern California). Wong was instinctively drawn towards the realm of gaming and the concomitant technologies that allowed the game designer to create hi-tech and realistic video games typified by multiple animation effects.

Freddie attempted to put his gaming skills to the test when he entered his name in the ‘Guitar Hero II’ contest staged in Dallas, in 2007, and endorsed by ‘World Series of Video Games’. His rendition of a single originally sung by ‘Freezepop’ was adjudged as the best and he was declared the winner in the completion. This accomplishment inspired Wong to upload humorous and engrossing video games on YouTube frequently as well as encouraged him to form ‘Helanor Brozevelt’—a rock band oriented around gaming—in the year 2007.

Wong took part in a nationwide quest for the topnotch ‘rock band’ team with his newly constituted ensemble, playing at ‘Hard Rock Café’ in New York. Freddie’s vocation as an indie filmmaker began to take root from 2010, underscored by the support he provided to ‘Joe Penna’ in filming an advertisement for McDonald’s. Wong produced and jointly directed as well as performed in a TV commercial in 2011 for promoting a video game ‘Battlefield 3’ endorsed by ‘Electronic Arts’.

The turning point in Wong’s career came in 2011, which turned out to be a watershed year for him. In 2011, Wong teamed up with Matthew Arnold and Desmond “Dez” Dolly both graduates of USC (University of Southern California) to set up ‘Rocket Jump’- a film production studio. The trio worked together on a web/internet video series known as ‘Video Game High School’ and started uploading episodes under the banner of ‘Rocket Jump’ from May 2012 onwards. With time the channel ‘Rocket Jump’ has grown in popularity and presently has nearly 8 million subscribers and 1.4 billion video views

Freddie Wong was named as one of the brightest stars of Hollywood by Forbes magazine in its 2015 “30 under 30” listing. The unprecedented success of ‘Video Game High School’ egged him on to enter into a partnership with ‘Lionsgate’. The collaboration paved the way for the release of action-oriented documentary series ‘RocketJump: The Show’, ‘Dimension 404’ (a sci-fi series), and numerous other innovative content are in the pipeline. Wong has co-directed, produced and acted in several other films, TV and web series including ‘The Strongest Man’, ‘My Music’, and ‘The Gauntlet’.