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Cynthia Hsiung

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Cynthia Hsiung is an award winning Director, Writer, Executive Producer and Development Executive who has developed and produced TV shows, documentaries, films and online content for MTV, VH1, Fox Kids Network, HBO and Warner Bros. She was part of the original programming development team that developed MTV's The Real World and Road Rules; HBO's Breasts, the documentary; and VH1's channel-defining Behind the Music series. Still in her 20s, she was Carson Daly's first MTV producer/director for his television VJ debut. Moving from New York to LA, she became the Director of Development for Spygaze Pictures developing feature film movies of the week. She was then brought on by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert to be the series Producer for the highly-rated 50 episode live-action series "Young Hercules" starring Ryan Gosling for Fox Kids Network. "Young Hercules" was nominated for two Emmy Awards and a Writers Guild award.

In 2010, Ms. Hsiung wrote, directed, and executive produced the feature film, "Are You For Great Sex"? After a US release, it was re-titled "Shades of Love" for its European release. The modern love story was based on a true story. The film won 5 awards including Best Director of a Feature Film and Best Narrative Writing for Cynthia Hsiung. Ms. Hsiung. In 2013, Cynthia returned to Showrunning the popular docu-reality series titled "FanAddicts!" shot in New Mexico at the then Albuquerque Studios (now Netflix Studios). In 2015 she worked on a music documentary series for Edward Norton regarding the affordability housing crisis. In 2016 she began as a popular instructor at UCLA Extension where she was awarded The Distinguished Instructor Award in 2022 and continues to teach TV Showrunning, Writing for Television, Short Films and in 2024 the Writing for Your First YouTube Channel course. Ms. Hsiung notably has her own YouTube Channel under the name Your Hollywood Dream which has over 343,000 subscribers as of the writing of this Bio. In 2019, Ms. Hsiung returned to the Writers Room as one of the Executive Producers for a series for China's Alibaba. The scripted one-hour dramatic series is described as a "Sci-Fi romance."

In 2023, Cynthia Hsiung added "Dr." to her name as she received an Honorary Doctorate in Media and Communications. In addition to continuing to instruct at UCLA Extension and run her popular YouTube Channel; in 2025 Dr. Hsiung is returning to her hometown of New York City with a theatrical play. She is Executive Producing a two actor play written by Tony Award Winning Writer John Patrick Shanley to be performed in New York City's Sargent Theatre on W 54th Street in December 2025.

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1 wins and 1 nominations

Filmography

Actor

2

Type

Year

Writing the Legend of Young Hercules Poster

Writing the Legend of Young Hercules Documentary2015Self

Young Hercules Poster

Young Hercules TV Series1998Groupie

Producer

12

Type

Year

Weeping for Wilco Documentary2016

Catching Hell Poster

Catching Hell TV Series2014

FanAddicts! Poster

FanAddicts! TV Series2013

Are You for Great Sex? Poster

Are You for Great Sex? Feature Film2012

Date Squad Short Film2001

Young Hercules Poster

Young Hercules TV Series1998

Behind the Music Poster

Behind the Music TV Series1997

Motel California TV Series1997

MTV Rock 'N' Jock Basketball VI TV Special1996

Squirt TV on MTV TV Series1996

MTV Wild Island Giveaway TV Special1988

Love Like a Champion Feature Film

Director

4

Type

Year

Weeping for Wilco Documentary2016

FanAddicts! Poster

FanAddicts! TV Series2013

Are You for Great Sex? Poster

Are You for Great Sex? Feature Film2012

Love Like a Champion Feature Film

Writer

3

Type

Year

Weeping for Wilco Documentary2016

Are You for Great Sex? Poster

Are You for Great Sex? Feature Film2012

Love Like a Champion Feature Film

2nd Unit / Asst Director

1

Crimson Winter Poster

Crimson Winter Feature Film2013

Thanks

1

Alien Planet Poster

Alien Planet Feature Film2023

Other Crew

1

Breasts: A Documentary Poster

Breasts: A Documentary Documentary1996

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