Education
University of Southern California.
University of Southern California.
Adrian Zaw has worked with web series producer Andy Dugan for the web series "Satacracy 88" as the character of "Ariel Zim". The series took home the first-ever Emmy for Outstanding Broadband Drama of 2007 for a Web Series. Soon after, he found himself working alongside director Adrian Picardi, whom he introduced to producers Don Le and Eric Ro, which led them all to create a low-budget web series called The Resistance.
Picardi was the series" official creator and director
The series started off as 4 short online teasers featured on YouTube. On the show, he plays the main villain, Syrus Primoris, the ruler of a nation called Aurordeca in the pursuit of immortality.
The only thing standing in his way is a band of freedom fighters called "ARM Members". Before filming the actual web show, the series was picked up by Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures and Starz Media, after executives at Starz and Ghost House viewed "The Resistance" teasers online.
The web show airs on October 4, 2010, on the SyFy channel as a one-hour television pilot along with being released in its original 8 episodic form on iTunes, Xbox Live, and the PlayStation Network.
The pilot will reportedly make history, as it"s the first time a series created originally for the web will first premiere on television The charity ended up in the top 20 out of 100 charities competing for the top prize, and ended up creating awareness for the widespread but generally unspoken issues of sexual assault and domestic violence. In September 2010, he produced videos for the first ever AAPI Rock the Vote 2010 campaign with Teddy Zee, Don Le, and George Wang.
Currently, Zaw works alongside numerous production companies including Fusion3 Media to produce projects of all kinds.