Faculty Profiles

Huay-Bing Law is a director and cinematographer whose films have earned an HBO APA Visionary Award, Princess Grace Award, and played in festivals worldwide. His short film, JUNE, about a Chinese immigrant’s experience in the segregated South, premiered on HBO. His work as a cinematographer has screened on HBO and ESPN, and festivals such as SXSW, BFI London Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival and Palm Springs International Film Festival. In 2018, he was the cinematographer on the feature narrative GOODBYE, MOTHER– a Vietnamese-language dramedy about a closeted son returning home with his boyfriend to meet his family in Saigon. The film had a wide release theatrically in Vietnam.

Huay began his career in the industry working in a variety of roles, including a Production Assistant, Location Scout, Researcher, Digital Utility Technician, 2nd Assistant Camera, 1st Assistant Camera, and Camera Operator. In those roles, he has worked on feature films, long form television series, commercials, documentaries, and IMAX films.

Huay currently resides in Austin, where he lectures at the University of Texas at Austin and Texas State University while developing multiple narrative, documentary and commercial projects.