Todd Chadwick Wilson was a film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 who made several gay films. Wilson's two feature films highlight gay male Asian

Asian people

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-White

White people

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 relationships.

According to an online source, "Todd believed much of queer cinema suffered from deficiencies such as overall negativity, downer endings, and lack of emotional and physical payoff. Todd infused his films with positive likable characters, happy endings, and emotional and titillating payoffs."

Films

• Haiku Love (Short, possibly unreleased)
• Rice and Potatoes (Feature Documentary)
• Under One Roof
  Under One Roof (film)
  Under One Roof is a 2002 independent gay-themed romantic comedy-drama directed by Todd Wilson . Shot on digital video, the film tells the story of a young gay Chinese-American man's search for true love and family acceptance within a framework of traditional norms.Under One Roof played worldwide at...
  
   (TLA Releasing
  TLA Releasing
  TLA Releasing is a US film distribution company owned by TLA Entertainment Group. In March 2011, a new LLC was formed for the operation. Its primary output is LGBT-related films from all over the world under the "TLA Releasing" label, as well as horror films under the label "Danger After Dark"...
  
  , 2002)
• Can't Buy Me Love (Released posthumously)
• NYC Dilemma (Released posthumously)

Awards

• Best Foreign Film 2002 Mix Brasil
  Mix Brasil
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   (Under One Roof)
• Special Recognition of a Score Award, Fire Island Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival 2002 (Under One Roof)
• Audience Award 2003 Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (Under One Roof)
• Best Short Film, Out Takes Dallas 2006 (Can't Buy Me Love)

Personal life

Born in Troy, New York

Troy, New York

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, Wilson got into still photography as a boy and graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology

Rochester Institute of Technology

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 and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Stephen Van Rensselaer established the Rensselaer School on November 5, 1824 with a letter to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Blatchford, in which van Rensselaer asked Blatchford to serve as the first president. Within the letter he set down several orders of business. He appointed Amos Eaton as the school's...

. Todd was an elder of the First United Presbyterian Church when he lived in Troy. He was active in the gay student organization at RPI and started a radio show there. He died in San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

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of lung cancer. His archive is housed at the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society in San Francisco