Graduated from the Peter Stark producing program at the University of Southern CaliforniaFilmed Elijah Wood 's audition tape for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).Used to work for Columbia Pictures. When Robert Rodriguez signed with the studio to distribute his first film, El mariachi (1992), he met Huang. The two became friends and Huang shared some of his would-be movie stories with Rodriguez, who - as he recalls in his memoir, "Rebel Without a Crew" - told him to simply "go out and make a movie." This lad to Huang resigning from his job and setting out to make Swimming with Sharks (1994).