Director Freddie Wong worked his way into multi-millionaire status by age 30. If he hasn’t yet achieved the fame of others in his income bracket, it’s because of his platform — a YouTube channel that boasts 7.6 million subscribers, viewership of more than a billion, and a web series called “Video Game High School” that’s worthy of Hollywood studios. The online auteur visits town tomorrow to help launch what he hopes is an incubator for the next Freddie Wong — free use of a 33,000-square-foot production studio through partners the St. Petersburg-Clearwater Film Commission and Clearwater’s Bluewater Media. “We want to find the most...
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