Kase Chong was born and raised just east of Los Ange­les where he started prepar­ing for the film indus­try from a very young age. At only eight years young, Kase pro­duced and directed his first “short”; an homage to Bat­man which con­sisted of 4 friends, 2 Bat­man cars from a McDonald’s Happy Meal, and the inge­nious sFX use of an old tread­mill to sub­sti­tute for a mov­ing street.

Kase was side­tracked from the enter­tain­ment world for a short while when he suc­cumbed to the pres­sures of soci­ety, con­formed to stereo­types, and decided to pur­sue a career in med­i­cine by attend­ing the top ranked bio­engi­neer­ing school, the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia at San Diego; where he sub­se­quently grad­u­ated with a degree in bio-engineering.

Not one to be off track for long, Kase was well on his way to attend­ing med­ical school when he gave it all up for the bright lights of Hol­ly­wood. Kase sub­mit­ted an essay on how he would rev­o­lu­tion­ize the enter­tain­ment indus­try and beat out 17 thou­sand other appli­cants nation­wide for a spot in Mastercard’s Price­less Edge pro­gram. Fol­low­ing an inten­sive sum­mer enter­tain­ment busi­ness course, Kase quickly rose to the top of the group and was selected as one of 12 win­ners to con­tinue on with an intern­ship at MTV.

Since then, Kase has made a suc­cess­ful career in the tele­vi­sion indus­try and has worked on shows for NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX. From MTV, Kase went on to work on live con­cert shows with the likes of Usher and Maya. From there, he moved on to game-shows such as Let’s Make A Deal for NBC. Finally, Kase tran­si­tioned to real­ity shows where he started his pro­duc­ing career. Even­tu­ally, Kase went on to Exec­u­tive Pro­duce a show for a national cable net­work which is cur­rently enjoy­ing a suc­cess­ful sec­ond season.

But tele­vi­sion was only the begin­ning. After fin­ish­ing a sea­son as a pro­ducer on the hit show Fla­vor of Love star­ring the charis­matic Fla­vor Flav, Kase felt there was more out there for him than real­ity tele­vi­sion and decided to pro­duce his first film. This led him to team up with direc­tor Van Pham and the project they part­nered for Near Fall went on to become an Offi­cial Selec­tion at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.

Now focus­ing his sights on direct­ing, Kase is con­fi­dent that he has the tal­ent, deter­mi­na­tion, and vision needed to make what ever his next project may be a success.