Here is all you need to know about YouTuber Wesley Wang including his age, career, education and more
Wesley Wang made history by being the youngest director to be signed by a major studio with the premiere of his award winning short film “nothing, except everything,” which is set to be adapted into a feature film.
Wang composed his first short story during his senior year of high school. In September 2024, he uploaded a video titled “Nothing, except everything” to his YouTube channel which became well-known instantly and was chosen for the Indianapolis Indy Shorts Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize.
A report in Deadline stats that there were four studios who desired working with the YouTuber but TriStar recently wrapped up the deal. The film version of Wang’s short will be written and directed by him, with production handled by Protozoa Pictures under the direction of Darren Aronofsky.
Who is YouTuber and chess player Wesley Wang, bio, age, education and movies
Wesley Wang is a YouTuber who was born on May 14 2004. The 19 years old is currently a student at the Harvard University, studying economics at one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
A look at Wesley Wang’s career
He co-founded a nonprofit before middle school, became a chess FIDE Master in 2018, and opened for Nicky Youre at last year’s Crimson Jam and is an 11-time national chess champion and has also produced additional short films, including Faces, Eve, and Mute. The YouTuber got interested in the feild at a very young age who started making films when he was just 11.
A 19-year-old studying economics at Harvard, Wang made nothing, except everything. during his senior year of high school.
CHESSanity was founded in 2014 by FIDE Master Wesley Wang and National Master Warren Wang, two brothers hailing from Jericho, NY.
“Nothing, except everything,” which he made in his senior year of high school, became well-known on YouTube and won the Grand Jury Prize at the Indianapolis Shorts Film Festival.
He is represented by WME and 3 Arts Entertainment; Protozoa is represented by Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher, CAA, and Narrative.
His father and brother played the lead roles in his early films, which he financed by giving chess lessons. On his Instagram account, he has around 21.4k followers with 105k subscribers on his YouTube as of this writing.