1. Timothy Tau has directed a number of short films and music videos that have screened at various film festivals worldwide and on YouTube.
14 Facts About Timothy Tau
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Timothy Tau then attended Franklin Pierce Law Center for his 1L year and then transferred to the University of California Hastings College of Law where he was the staff editor and technology editor of the Hastings Law Journal, and received a JD in 2007.
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From 2008 to 2014, Timothy Tau pursued graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and received a Master of Science in Engineering in electrical engineering in 2010, along with a certificate in fiction from the UCLA Extension Writers' Program, and certificates in screenwriting as well as television writing from the Professional Programs at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
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Timothy Tau's short story "The Understudy" is a comic-surrealist story about an Asian American actor named Jack Chang struggling in Los Angeles who must deal with the sudden emergence of a mysterious new understudy named Hyde on a production of a play he is working on.
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Timothy Tau has written a play entitled "Yellow Shakespeare" and developed it as part of the David Henry Hwang Writer's Institute at East West Players.
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Timothy Tau is a contributing writer to indieWire's The Playlist and writes film reviews and news articles for the site.
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Timothy Tau has directed several short films under his production company, Firebrand Hand Creative [1].
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In 2014, Timothy Tau was named as one of "6 Young Asian American Filmmakers Who Are Shattering America's Film Bias" by Mic Magazine.
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In 2018, a short documentary entitled Nathan Jung v Bruce Lee written and directed by Tau won Best Original Script and Best Comedy Short Film awards at the Winter 2018 Asians on Film Festival.
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Timothy Tau has written and directed a short film entitled "Incentivus" about a Writer and imagination, hallucinations and dreams.
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Timothy Tau has further served as a federal judicial law clerk for the Honorable Roy S Payne of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, the Honorable Kandis A Westmore of the US District Court for the Northern District of California and as a judicial law fellow or pro bono law clerk for the Honorable Michael A Shipp of the US District Court for the District of New Jersey.
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Timothy Tau has additionally worked as a patent examiner at the US Patent and Trademark Office, where he detailed as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Jameson Lee, the most senior Administrative Patent Judge at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
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Timothy Tau was editor in chief of the Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, the first Asian American editor in chief in the journal's century-plus history, and moreover was the legislative chair for the Patent and Trademark Office Society.
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In 2025, Timothy Tau became a Visiting Associate Professor at National Taiwan University College of Law.