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George Huang is a Taiwanese-American film-maker. In addition to working on his own films, he also frequently contributes work to other independent film-makers, especially Robert Rodríguez. The son of Taiwanese immigrants, George Huang grew up with an avid love of motion pictures. After high... school, he attempted to move from his love of film into something tangible by enrolling in a producing program at the University of Southern California. After graduating, he began working from the bottom-up as an aspiring executive assistant at Columbia Pictures. In 1992, Columbia acquired the distribution rights to the film El Mariachi by Robert Rodríguez. As the film was being prepared for release, Rodriguez struck up a friendship with the young studio assistant with whom he shared a love of film. As Rodriguez, a native and resident of Austin, Texas, had no L.A. residence, he stayed at Huang's apartment. Rodriguez -known for his money-saving/high-quality filmmaking techniques- was amazed by Huang's blasé attitude toward the way his superiors spent millions and millions on the production of a single motion picture.
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