Ross Ching

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Ross Ching
Born1985or1986(age 37–38) [1]
Occupation(s) Film director, editor
Website http://www.rossching.com

Ross Ching is an American filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California.

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Early life and education

Ching grew up in San Jose, California. [2] He started making skateboarding videos as a teenager. [3] Ching went on to study film at San Diego State University and graduated in 2008. [1] [4] He was originally interested in producing but later transitioned to production after his time lapse and stop motion videos in college began winning awards. [2]

Career

Ching's edited together thousands of long-exposure photographs in QuickTime Pro for first short film Eclectic . [5] He's released at least two more sequels by March 2009. [6]

Following his graduation, he created a video inspired by Death Cab for Cutie's song, "Little Bribes" due to the lack of employment opportunities during the Great Recession. He used time-lapse photography to visually represent the song's 211 words alongside images from Los Angeles. The project took 50 hours to make and costed about $100. Prior to releasing it, he contacted different people on Twitter with large followings to preview the video, who in turn promoted it. He posted the video on his website in May 2009 under the banner, "looking for work". Stereogum later covered the video, saying "We rarely post fan-made videos, but this is too good... Hire him!" Within days, Atlantic Records contacted Ching to purchase the video and released it as the song's official music video. [4]

Ching released action short film 3 Minutes in 2011. [7]

He also re-released "Running on Empty" and added new footage to it, redubbing it for the big "Carmageddon" event in Los Angeles that threatened to shut down the freeway system. [8] [9]

Producers Don Le and Peter Katz approached Ching to shoot the short film, "Already Gone". The film was shot in one day in a Los Angeles warehouse and starred Shawn Ashmore and Harry Shum, Jr. The producers hoped that the short film would generate enough interest for a feature film treatment. [10] [11] The short was one of the top finalists at the first ever Shot on RED Film Festival in 2012. [12]

Ching directed a webseries for Thrash Lab called "Empty America". [13] He followed it up with "10 Epic Ways to Smash A Pumpkin". [14]

Filmography

Music video

YearFilmArtistNotes
2009"Little Bribes" Death Cab for Cutie [4]
2009"My Girlfriend" Uncle Kracker
2009"Welcome All Again" Collective Soul
2009"Electricidad" Jesse & Joy
2010"Valentine" Kina Grannis [15] [16]
2010"Offbeat" Clara Chung [17] [18]
2011"The Camel Song" Clara Chung [19] [20]
2011"Without You" AJ Rafael [19]
2012"Missing Piece" David Choi [19]
2012"Without Me" Kina Grannis [20]
2012"Fish" Clara Chung

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