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Don Pham Le
Born
Don Pham Le

September 20, 1983 (1983-09-20) (age 41)
Houston, Texas
NationalityAmerican
OccupationProducer

Don Pham Le (born September 20, 1983) is an American television and music video producer.

Career

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In 2008, he co-founded the production company Northern Five Entertainment and produced the original pilot episodes for the action web series The Resistance with director Adrian Picardi and producer Eric Ro.[citation needed] Under Northern Five, Le worked as associate producer for the music video "Makeup Smeared Eyes" for the band Automatic Love Letter.[1][2]

In 2009, he produced a music video for a song called "A Soldier Never Dies", a track dedicated to fallen marine Anthony Hector Vargas.[3] Currently[when?], Le is focused on a new production company specializing in videography and photography for film, TV, commercials and music videos. He also recently started a wedding production company called Bliss Imagery that focuses on traditional and photojournalistic videography and photography for engaged/soon-to-be wedded couples.[citation needed]

Le's video work on Neuromarketing was featured on CNN's The Screening Room (the intro was co-directed by Le and nationally televised),[4] Wired[5] and Mental Floss.[6]

In 2010, under the Teddy Zee Productions banner, Le directed and produced a series of charity PSA videos alongside Teddy Zee, Adrian Zaw, George Wang and APEX founder Stephen Liu.[7][8][9] The charity ended up in the top 20 out of 100 charities competing for the top prize and ended up creating awareness for sexual assault and domestic violence.[10][11][12][13] In September 2010, he produced videos for the first-ever AAPI Rock the Vote 2010 campaign with Teddy Zee, George Wang and Adrian Zaw.[14]

The project released January 10, 2011. 3 Minutes received nationwide coverage from the official Star Wars site,[15] Entertainment Weekly,[16] Wired,[17] Gizmodo[18] and Seventeen.[19]

In mid-2011, Le produced a series of three short comedic sketches with Wong Fu Productions[20][21][22] In 2011, Le worked on music videos with director Ross Ching, including producing duties with musicians Kina Grannis, Jason Chen and "Missing Piece"[23] with artist David Choi.[24] He also produced a short film with George Wang for the LXD which featured prominently on Fox's Glee 2011 concert tour. The short was showcased in front of the concert itself before every show and was sponsored by Chevy.[25]

In April 2012, Le and producer Peter Katz released a short film based on the script of Bill Balas' feature length film Already Gone.[26][27]

Le produced a conspiracy thriller-comedic short directed by Ching,[28] starring YouTubers KevJumba and David So.[citation needed]

Le serves as creator and executive producer of The Bachelor Vietnam [29] which premiered in late summer 2018 on HTV7 in Vietnam.[30] In 2019, he produced the documentary Touching The Moon: the Ngô Thanh Vân Story for Ngo Thanh Van, and was subsequently released online.[citation needed]

Filmography

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Producer

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Music video

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Year Title Artist Notes Reference(s)
2008 "Makeup Smeared Eyes" Automatic Love Letter Associate producer [1][2]
2010 "Offbeat" Clara Chung
2011 "Without You" AJ Rafael with director Ross Ching [31]
2011 "The Camel Song" Clara Chung with director Ross Ching [32][33]
2013 "So Alive" Tiffany Alvord [34]
2014 "GTFO" Ryan Higa

Film

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Year Title Role Notes Reference(s)
2011 3 Minutes Producer Short film [35]
2012 Already Gone Producer Short film [26][27]
2014 ABCs of Death 2 Producer Segment "A"

Episodic series

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Year Title Role Notes Reference(s)
2010 The Resistance Associate producer

References

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  1. ^ a b Automatic Love Letter – "Makeup Smeared Eyes" music video
  2. ^ a b "ALL – "Makeup Smeared Eyes" article on Froggertv". Indiestar.tv. August 29, 2009. Archived from the original on October 7, 2011. Retrieved October 18, 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ "Rap memorializes Marine, cousin". The Press Enterprise. October 24, 2009. Archived from the original on August 4, 2010. Retrieved October 24, 2009.
  4. ^ "The Science of Scary". CNN's The Screening Room. October 28, 2009. Retrieved October 28, 2009.
  5. ^ Silver, Curtis (September 23, 2009). "Neurocinema Aims to Change the Way Movies are Made". Wired. Retrieved September 23, 2009.
  6. ^ "This is Your Brain on Horror Movies". Mental Floss. September 16, 2009. Archived from the original on September 22, 2009. Retrieved September 16, 2009.
  7. ^ "Asian American: Stephen C Liu". Goldsea.com. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
  8. ^ "The Leading Six Three Six Site on the Net". sixthreesix.org. Retrieved October 18, 2011.[permanent dead link]
  9. ^ Previous post Next post (January 19, 2010). "Interview: Justin Chon Talks Charity and Twilight | Underwire". Wired. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
  10. ^ "Youtube All Stars United Against Violence". 8Asians. January 18, 2010. Retrieved January 18, 2010.
  11. ^ "CPAF Press Kit". Teddy Zee. January 18, 2010. Archived from the original on January 15, 2010. Retrieved January 18, 2010.
  12. ^ "Asian Celebrities Are United Against Violence". AllKPop. January 19, 2010. Retrieved January 19, 2010.
  13. ^ "LAST DAY – Vote for CPAF NOW – make a difference!". AllKPop. January 21, 2010. Retrieved January 21, 2010.
  14. ^ "Kai Ma". iamkoream. Archived from the original on October 9, 2011. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
  15. ^ Glee goes geek in 3 minutes
  16. ^ "Clip du jour: Harry Shum Jr., tWitch, and...lightsabers?". EW.com. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
  17. ^ Previous post Next post (January 14, 2011). "Intense Lightsaber Combat in "3 Minutes" | GeekDad". Wired. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
  18. ^ "If You Got Three Minutes, Watch 3 Minutes". Gizmodo. January 10, 2011.
  19. ^ Magazine, Seventeen (January 6, 2011). "Harry Shum, Jr. From Stars In Action-Packed YouTube Film!". Seventeen. Retrieved September 12, 2021.
  20. ^ Archived copy Archived May 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  21. ^ "harry shum jr. x wong fu shorts teaser trailer". Retrieved September 12, 2021.
  22. ^ Wong Fu Productions x Harry Shum Jr. Shorts Teaser
  23. ^ "allkpop | all kpop all the time". allkpop.
  24. ^ Missing Piece music video by David Choi
  25. ^ "LXD Chevy 2011 Glee Tour: Intro Spot (Kid David & Luigi)" – via www.youtube.com.
  26. ^ a b Erickson, Christine (May 2, 2012). "Films as Startups: How Indie Producers Build Buzz". Mashable. Retrieved February 20, 2022.
  27. ^ a b Silver, Curtis. "Exclusive: See 3-Minute Action Film Already Gone". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved February 20, 2022.
  28. ^ "PSY wants to KILL ME! | Gangnam Style News". Archived from the original on January 24, 2013. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
  29. ^ "The Bachelor – Anh chàng độc thân đã đến Việt Nam". Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  30. ^ "The Bachelor: Đường đến Việt Nam của 'Anh chàng độc thân'. - Vietcetera". Vietcetera (in Vietnamese). March 19, 2018. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  31. ^ "Jackfroot". jackfroot.com. Retrieved September 12, 2021.
  32. ^ "The Camel Song music video". www.droku.com. Retrieved September 12, 2021.
  33. ^ Kevin Hsieh. "The Camel Song by Clara C | channelAPA.com". APA.
  34. ^ "On Air with Ryan Seacrest - News & more from the live radio show".
  35. ^ 3 Minutes - feat. Harry Shum Jr & Stephen 'tWitch' Boss, retrieved February 19, 2022