Name: Rod Chong
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Previous Locations: London, Los Angeles, Toronto, Amsterdam
Career Path: NFS Special Projects Creative Director
Previous Career Paths: Music Video Director for many years
also used to do Commercials, Motion Graphics, Multimedia and VJ
Projects. Worked on a few video games along the way too. Most of these
projects were basically excuses to shoot or create cars though!
Notable Projects/Wins: Birth of Pro Street film on the
history of tuner based street racing. Speed Tribe: experimental
documentary shot at the 2001 24H of Le Mans. Directed the first Marilyn
Manson video!
Car: Lexus IS300
Fav Past Cars: Cal Look '62 Beetle, '82 Corolla SR5, Tuned '89 CRX
Next Car: AE86. Soon soon.... just as soon as I get a raise.... or two.
Car Passions: Used to race go-carts from the age of 6 to 14
at Westwood Raceway in Canada. Also raced RC cars and build Hot
Rod/Kustom model cars for many years before getting distracted with
video, music, clubbing and girls in art college. Moving to London, UK
in 96/97 developed unhealthy addictions to Sports Car Racing, Le Mans,
Autosport Magazine and F1. These days the big obsession is Drifting and
Time Attack, but I do tend to follow most types of racing: DTM, WRC,
FIA GT, LMES, ALMS, Super GT, Le Mans, WTCC, F1 etc etc. Also have a
real soft spot for Kustoms, Hot Rods, Vintage Drag racing and late
70s/early 80s Group5 GT racers.
Personal Style: Mod: I have a thing for wearing ties and narrow trousers ATM.
Favourite Band of the Moment: Ting Tings
Personal Motto: I click therefore I am