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Tiffany Huang (黃咏婷)

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Tiffany Huang (黃咏婷)

Tiffany Frances Huang (黃咏婷) is a Taiwanese American filmmaker and director. She was selected by National Geographic among 100+ applicants to direct a short film as part of their “10 Days of Genius” campaign.

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Tiffany Frances Huang
  • Chinese: 黃咏婷
  • Education: UC San Diego (Media major); Art Center College of Design (Master’s in directing)
  • Role: Filmmaker, director
  • Geography: United States (Los Angeles area)
  • Notable work: National Geographic “10 Days of Genius” campaign — “Moment” short film

Education

  • UC San Diego — Media major (undergraduate)
  • Art Center College of Design — Master’s in directing (graduate)

National Geographic: “Moment”

National Geographic commissioned Tiffany to direct a short film as part of their “10 Days of Genius” campaign. The project required her to create a film based on one of Albert Einstein’s ten famous quotes, with the constraint that the film could not exceed 6 minutes. National Geographic provided $15,000 for production.

Tiffany was given only three weeks to prepare, shoot, and edit the film. She chose the quote: “DEATH IS NOT AN END IF WE HAVE LIVED ON OUR CHILDREN.”

Her father had passed away in June 2016, so she wrote a story about his spirit being forever remembered, combined with some of her previous works, and submitted it to National Geographic.

The project was highly competitive — National Geographic received over 100 applicants, and Tiffany was selected from the pool.

Production Details

  • Director: Tiffany Frances Huang
  • Cinematographer: Jeremy Lundborg (also a director, Juilliard graduate in dance)
  • Lead Actress: Chloe Crade (mother is Japanese, father is Irish; Juilliard dance graduate, full-time performer with TV and Broadway experience)
  • Supporting Role: Tina Chang (張瑞菊) played the mother (she is Tiffany’s mother)
  • Film Link: https://youtu.be/raUyrYRiqt4

Results

National Geographic’s Facebook page received over 1 million views for the project. National Geographic also published additional coverage of the project. Tiffany’s film “Moment” was used as the headline image for the coverage.

The new projects led to a significant increase in National Geographic’s Facebook viewership, and injected new creative energy from younger generations into the content.

Previous Work

Before “Moment,” Tiffany had previously created work for church/missionary groups. She used her filming in Africa (where she had worked with a church evangelism group) to apply to Art Center College of Design for her master’s program.

Source Notes and Confidence

  • Content priority A: 2017 TAHS Publication (profile Part 2, ~66 lines)
  • Content priority A: Contains biographical narrative including education, National Geographic project, and previous work
  • Hub: |2017 TAHS Publication
  • Note: The full text includes detailed biographical information including education, National Geographic project details, and previous work.

From the record

  • 2017-06-23 — “MOVEMENT,” a video work by Tiffany Huang, is published in the TAH Foundation story corpus as record 68 of the videos series, backlinking to her as a named subject (source).

Sources

Education

  • Univ. of California San Diego — B.S., Media
  • ArtCenter College of Design — M.S., Director

Employment

  • Freelance — Director/Editor — (2009-) — Flaure TV — Co-owner — (2010-)

Family

  • Father: 黃介峰 (passed away June 2016; his memory inspired the film “Moment”)
  • Mother: 張瑞菊 — played the mother (supporting role) in “Moment”

Cross-reference: her profile appears in the |2017 TAHS Publication Who’s Who corpus maintained by the |TAH Foundation.

Vault Connections

  • 本頁所記人物另有專訪文章存於 vault：Hello from Taiwan — Q&A with filmmaker Tiffany Frances Huang。
  • 2009年起任自由導演／剪輯，2010年起與伙伴共同經營 Flaure TV（見本頁 TAH 表格檔案）。
  • 「Moment」製作細節（本頁既有事實彙整）：從 National Geographic 百餘件投稿中脫穎而出；以 Einstein 名言「DEATH IS NOT AN END IF WE HAVE LIVED ON OUR CHILDREN」為題；預算 15,000 美元、片長限 6 分鐘內、僅三週完成前置拍攝剪輯；攝影 Jeremy Lundborg（Juilliard 舞蹈畢業），女主角 Chloe Crade（Juilliard 舞蹈畢業，具電視與百老匯經驗），母親張瑞菊本色演出母親一角。成片於 NatGeo Facebook 獲百萬以上瀏覽，並獲選為報導頭圖。
  • 求學前後曾為教會／宣教團體製作影片；以其在非洲與教會佈團合作之拍攝成果申請 Art Center College of Design 碩士班。

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