Biography
William Wei is an Australian-Chinese filmmaker & photographer, known for his desire to continually seek and explore while creating films & photographs that captures the beauty of life, following his own motto "If there is a Will, there is always a Wei". By 21 years old, William has showcased films and photographs from over 44 countries, published his book, created an online series as his content has reached over 300 million views and 5 million shares.
William started filmmaking when he was just 10 years old when he borrowed his mother's video camera, which he made various movie parodies and YouTube videos with. Growing with a small base of subscribers on YouTube in 2010 at 13 years old, William had received a new camera, finally to call his own, after his mother had accidentally dropped the family camera into the water at the beach.
Soon later, with his already built exposure, William decided to film anything that intrigued him, coming across a busker which didn't receive the recognition he deserved. Quickly William thought of an idea to see if he could make a high quality video to allow people to appreciate something that not everyone would usually notice. William uploaded this video onto his established YouTube channel. 2 months in, the video had only received tiny recognition, 3rd month, the video went viral, now receiving over 160 million views & 1 million shares worldwide solely on his original YouTube video.
William quickly continued with his filmmaking efforts to create stories that showed perspectives not everyone could experience, while moving into photography at the age of 15, feeling that a single frame should be mastered before making 24,30,60 or 120 frame films. After years of practice, travel & post production, William feels it is time to get back into the complexity of filmmaking, where there are thousands of variations from , Pre-production, sound, VFX, Lighting, structure, script, & many more.
His future daring goals include to win an Oscar, climb Mount Everest, start a fashion line, restaurant, media company, travel company and charity foundation. As ambitious as he is, it is only a dream he hopes to one day achieve.
