Meet Kevin Huie of Los Angeles

Today we’d like to introduce you to Kevin Huie.

Kevin, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
It all happened during my last year at UC Riverside. I was studying Theatre, and I was trying to get an internship at a local film production company and they passed my info to a movie that was filming in Riverside. It was a Bollywood musical movie called “It’s A Mismatch”. On set I did runs and helped out the art department, and got to see how they did the musical numbers, it was an great experience and that after that I wanted to pursue the film industry.

I moved to Los Angeles, and started freelancing in the film industry. The first project I worked on, the director, Angelo Bell, became my mentor for few years and he provided a lot of on the job training and I learned aspects of the filmmaking process and how to tell a story through him. And I worked on a lot of other low budget independent films. Early in my career I worked as production assistant, sound boom operator, and grip. Eventually I focused on being an assistant director, as I found that I enjoyed the collaborative nature of being an assistant director and I enjoyed figuring out on set logistics. First time being the 1st Assistant Director on a feature film, was a film that Angelo was directing.

After being an assistant director on several feature films and shorts, I joined the Directors Guild of America. I did couple years of low budget movies, but eventually I was able to transistion into television. The first show I would work on is “NCIS”, I was just day playing as an additional 2nd assistant director. It was my first time being in that position and I didn’t have any idea what the job entailed. At the end of the day it was just any other set I’ve worked on so I adjusted to their workflow quickly. I would also work on the shows, “Good Trouble”, “Love, Victor”, “Never Have I Ever”, “9-1-1”, and “9-1-1: Lone Star”.

When I was assistant directing, sometimes I would get more invovled with the project, and that’s how I started to get into more producting. I produce a short film with some other filmmakers I met, but things started to take off when I produced the stand up special, “Brash Boys Club”, which features 3 gay comedians doing half hour sets. From there I would produce other stand up specials that featured diverse voices including, “Rez Comedy”, “Laugh Proud”, and season 2 of “Comedy InvAsian”.

In between those projects I produced my first narrative feature film, “The Last Summer of Nathan Lee”. It’s about a high school kid who gets diagnosed with brain cancer, and his best friend decides to film his last remaing life, in which they vow to live to the fullest. It premiered at 2023 CaamFest . And also got into the 2023 Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.

Currently I’m producing the feature film, “The Way You Dance”, and the 3rd season of “Comedy InvAsian”. We finished filming “The Way You Dance in October 2025, it’s a movie about a dancer who returns to his estranged father who has terminal cancer and he finds new purpose from teaching a dance class at a community center. And the 3rd season of “Comedy InvAsian” is going to start filming in February 2026, it’ll feature another 8 Asian stand ups doing 30 minute stand up set.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I think in the film industry is always chaotic. It wasn’t a smooth road. There’s a lot of trail and error as I didn’t really know what I wanted to do in the film industry.

Early in my career, I did a lot of unpaid work, I did meet a lot of great people, but there were many moments where felt like my career was very stagnant. Some projects didn’t really pay off at the end, as those contacts, didn’t bring more work. I Couldn’t have survived without my parents support.

When I joined the Directors Guild, I struggled to find union work intially. As most of my contacts we’re in the nonunion independent movie world. And when I would interview, I didn’t have any references from people that were in union, so I was a tough sell. It felt like I was starting from stratch, as I didn’t have the connections. But because of that I forced myself to participate in the union, and I’ve met a lot of people through that and eventually was able to get union work.

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I’m a assistant director and a producer in the film and television industry.

As an assistant director my focus is dealing with on set logistics, scheduling, coordinating things with the crew, making sure things push foward, and executing the director’s vision.

As a producer, I’m involved in all aspects of the production. I provide feedback to the script and casting. I make decisions on building the production team and the department heads. I push to make the best product within the confines of budget and time.

Right now I’m the more proud of the project, “Angeleno”, it’s a microbudget feature film that I’m producing. We had a budget of 15k and I got to work with cast and crew that I haven’t collborated with in over 9 years. These were people I met early in my career and we always wanted to make a feature together, and it finally happened.

What sets me apart from others, as a filmmaker I try to focus on projects that amplify voices from multiple cultural perspectives as well as things that have some social commentary.

What were you like growing up?
I was introverted kid, who liked video games and cartoons.

My parents would take us to the movies a lot growing up, they also introduced me to Hong Kong movies, and I became a fan of kung fu and their action movies.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kevinwhuie/
• Other: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2222871/

Image Credits
Kevin Huie
Julie Chan
Fiona Gaye
John Ortiz
Alex Ivany