About Kevin Duncan Wong

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Kevin D. Wong is a Bay Area-based director, editor, and producer. Following a stint at Lucasfilm's ILM he ventured out into the world of freelance filmmaking where he writes, directs, edits and otherwise renders both fiction and nonfiction films.

His feature debut, Home a Hotel, premiered at the 66th San Francisco International Film Festival where it won the Audience Award and the McBaine Bay Area Documentary Award. His short documentary My Little Hilton premiered at Big Sky Doc Fest and the short Home is a Hotel  won the Loni Ding award for social justice documentary and Best Short Documentary at Cinequest.

Kevin is currently a YBCA Creative Capital Fellow and has been a Sundance Humanities Sustainability fellow, SFFILM Filmhouse Resident and BAVC National MediaMaker fellow.  

He has also written and directed narrative films including an adaptation of a Radiolab episode entitled  Forgetting, the Sci-Fi thriller Jus Soli starring Lynn Chen.  Kevin's script for Sweeping Graves, was an Austin Film Fest "Second Rounder", his script Be Still My Child was a Screencraft Horror Semi-Finalist, and his screenplay Nellie was a 2nd round selection in the Sundance Screenwriters Lab.

Directing / Exhibition

Home is a Hotel

April 2023: SF International Film Festival, Audience Award, McBaine Award - Best Bay Area Documentary.
August 2023: Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival
September 2023: NY Latino Film Festival presented by HBO
November 2023: Austin Film Festival
Novemberr 2023: New Filmmakers LA
September 2023: San Diego Asian Film Festival
Feburary 2024: Big Sky Doc Fest

My Little Hilton

March 2021: Big Sky Doc Fest
September 2021: Mill Valley Film Festival
October 2021: Decibels Film Festival

Jus Soli

September 2020: Film Shortage Daily Pick

Home Is A Hotel ( Short )

Feb 2016: SF Indie Fest
March 2016: CAAM Fest Winner Loni Ding Award
March 2016: Cinequest Winner Best Short Documentary
April 2016: SF International Film Festival Special Selection
June 2016: PBS Online Film Festival

Forgetting

May 2013: Viewster Online Festival
September 2013: San Jose Short Film Festival
October 2013: NYC Indie Fest

Be My Baby

May 2011: Asian Street Heritage Festival: Film Exhibition
November 2011: Chicago Filipino Film Festival
April 2012: Comcast On Demand ‐ Pnoi TV

Work Experience / Residencies

Director / Editor

Freelance

April 2011 - Present

Sundance Institute Humanities Sustainability Fellowship

April 2022 - April 2023

SFFILM Filmhouse Resident

January 2022 - December 2022

BAVC Mediamaker Fellow

Feburary - December 2016

Colorist

Advantageous ( Winner Sundance Film Festival for Original Vision )

December 2014 - Jan 2015

Editor / Colorist

Feature Length Documentary

The Organic Life (Official Selection Mill Valley Film Festival )

December 2011 - May 2012

Editor

Documentary Series Pilot

NGO State (2 Episodes)

March 2011

Resource Assistant

Industrial Light and Magic ( Lucasfilm )

August 2008 ‐ April 2011

DP / Editor

30 min documentary funded by SFSU

A Moral Debt: The Postwar Battle of the Veteranos

January ‐ September 2007

IT Administrator / Web Manager

Ninth Street Independent Film Center

December 2005 ‐ July 2008

Education

San Francisco State University

San Francisco, CA
Bachelor of Arts: Radio and Television
Bachelor of Sciences: Information Systems
Minor: Philosophy