{"id":2430030,"date":"2026-05-24T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2430030"},"modified":"2026-05-24T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:50:00","slug":"aao-entertainment-signs-filmmaker-adrian-yang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/aao-entertainment-signs-filmmaker-adrian-yang\/","title":{"rendered":"AAO Entertainment Signs Filmmaker Adrian Yang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong>\u00a0AAO Entertainment has signed director Adrian Yang for management following the breakout success of his viral narrative short film\u00a0<em>Passing<\/em>, which has generated significant industry attention after notching nearly 15 million views on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shot and directed by the Chinese-American filmmaker,\u00a0<em>Passing<\/em>\u00a0follows a young woman who gathers the courage to speak to a stranger on a New York street. What begins as a simple interaction becomes an intimate reflection on human connection, with an unexpected twist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-accent\/2 pb-5 md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_1an58qoqk5slubsnqq5bH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[#_R_1an58qoqk5slubsnqq5bH1_ { display: none; }\n@media screen and (max-width: 767.95px) {\n        #_R_1an58qoqk5slubsnqq5bH1_ { display: flex; }\n        iframe { max-width: 100vw; }\n      }]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The momentum surrounding\u00a0<em>Passing<\/em>\u00a0has led to a follow-up project starring actor Nick Creegan (<em>Batwoman<\/em>) and actress\/singer Leslie Grace (<em>In the Heights<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Yang is a graduate of the AFI Conservatory whose work has screened at festivals including HollyShorts Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival and Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cLike filmmakers such as Celine Song and Lee Isaac Chung, Adrian has a deeply human approach to storytelling,\u201d said AAO Entertainment founder Christian Rodriguez. \u201cThere\u2019s an emotional precision to his work that feels both intimate and cinematic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Currently, the director is developing multiple features and other original projects spanning drama, romance and character-driven storytelling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.deadline.com\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Deadline's Newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Deadline's Newsletter&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Deadline&#8217;s Newsletter<\/a>. 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Shot and directed by the Chinese-American filmmaker,\u00a0Passing\u00a0follows a young woman who gathers the courage to speak to a stranger on a New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2430031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[476538,417771,476539],"class_list":["post-2430030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-adrian-yang","tag-leslie-grace","tag-nick-creegan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AAO-Entertainment-Signs-Filmmaker-Adrian-Yang.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2430032,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430030\/revisions\/2430032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2430031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}