Timothy Tau

Timothy Tau is an award-winning writer, director and producer. Tau is known for Keye Luke (2012), a short film biopic on pioneering Asian American actor and artist Keye Luke (portrayed by Feodor Chin), who played the first on-screen Kato in the 1940s Green Hornet decades before Bruce Lee and who was also the All-American "Number One Son", Lee Chan, in the popular Charlie Chan films of the 1930s. He received a Visual Communications "Armed with a Camera" Fellowship for Emerging Media Artists to make the film, and it has screened at over a dozen film festivals worldwide. Tau has also directed and written the surreal short film Incentivus (2012) starring Archie Kao as a writer, and the black-and-white Film Noir/Sci-Fi/Horror genre-bender, The Case (2010). Tau also won Grand Prize in the Hyphen Asian American Short Story Contest for his short story "The Understudy", which is published in the Winter 2011 Issue of Hyphen Magazine.