Wesley Wang

Wesley Wang is an American film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his short film nothing, except everything., which is now being adapted into a feature film produced by Darren Aronofsky and Sony's TriStar Pictures. He was on Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2024. In 2026, he founded Wesley Wang Media, a studio to help distribute his work, alongside other potentially viral intellectual property.

Early life Wang is from Long Island, and attended Jericho High School in Jericho, New York. As a competitive chess player, he became a FIDE Master in 2018. He started the non-profit CHESSanity in 2014 to promote chess in underprivileged schools across the country. He attended Harvard College, however as of 2026 he has dropped out to found Wesley Wang Media.

Career During his senior year of high school, Wang wrote and directed the short film nothing, except everything. (2023). To get the project made, he taught chess lessons for funding and cold-emailed hundreds of producers before Scott Aharoni agreed to produce. After having its world premiere at the Academy Award-qualifying Indy Shorts International Film Festival, the film went onto garner over 8.9 million views on YouTube.

The film received mixed reviews, with some praising its technical aspects and depiction of Gen Z culture whilst others criticizing the film's heavy-handedness in its existentialist themes and Wang's privileged position as a factor in the film's success.

Sparking a bidding war, the rights to the feature adaptation were then bought by TriStar, with Darren Aronofsky's Protozoa Pictures producing. The feature is now in development.

On June 11, 2026, Wesley uploaded to his YouTube channel an animated short film entitled Violet and Marlowe Rob a Bank (stylized in all caps). The short is a music video for the song "Feel It All Again" by the band adore. Violet and Marlowe is a CGI animated short film about a rabbit couple attempting to thwart a monopoly in the carrot market. The short won Best Animated Short at the Tribeca Film Festival, where it initially premiered.

Alongside the premiere of Violet and Marlowe, Wesley announced that he was founding his own studio, Wesley Wang Media. This studio, according to Wang himself, is meant to be "...the A24 of the creator economy".

Filmography Short film YearTitleDirectorWriterProducer 2022 Mute 2023 nothing, except everything. 2024 You Are Seen 2026Violet and Marlowe Rob A Bank

Feature film YearTitleDirectorWriterNotes TBA nothing, except everything. In development