∂ Julian Adams
Before Julian Adams shared a submarine—OK, fine, a submarine movie—with Ed Harris and David Duchovny, he was a film-obsessed Wreck. “I always had a love for movies and an interest in filmmaking, but I wasn’t sure how to go about finding my way into a profession,” he says. “I knew Georgia Tech had one of the finest schools of architecture. I had always loved Atlanta and felt a connection to the city. As I made my way through architecture school, I began to investigate
local independent filmmaking.” While working for a South Carolina architecture and interior design firm, Adams, M Arch 98, tinkered with filmmaking on the weekends. Eventually he teamed up
If it wasn’t for Georgia Tech, Julienne Kung never would’ve worked with Rick Ross. The connection came through a classmate and fellow member of the Georgia Tech Symphony Orchestra, and Kung, EE 11, ended up playing viola on the Miami rapper’s 2010 critically acclaimed album, Teflon Don. As a child, Kung frequently told friends and relatives, “I want to be a builder.” True to her word, she now splits her time between engineering and music endeavors. Spending her weekdays as 0 6 4
a quality assurance engineer at Applied Global Technologies in Kennesaw, Ga., and her evenings and weekends performing at weddings, rehearsing and teaching others, Kung—who also plays
with his father to make The Last Confederate, a small-but-well-received (it won several awards during its film-festival run) movie about his family during the Civil War. In the years it took to create it, Adams met and worked with “a great deal of people,” including Todd Robinson, an Emmy Award-winning director who would become his producing partner. The pair eventually made Phantom, a Russian-submarine thriller that hit theaters in March and is available on DVD. Adams is currently producing and starring in Robinson’s next feature, The Last Full Measure, which stars Morgan Freeman and Robert Duvall, and is slated for a 2014 release. It’s a lot of work, but Tech prepared him for the long hours. “I have very fond memories of my time there,” Adams says. “Even though they almost worked me into an early grave.” Osahon Tongo, Mgt 10, can relate. The 24-year-old Naperville, Ill., native played linebacker and defensive end for Georgia Tech but now is an MFA student in filmmaking at USC. Doing the Georgia Tech campus movie festival in 2008 and 2009 helped ignite his passion for film, but visiting a fraternity
MUSIC cello—looks back warmly on her time at Tech. “My memories become sweeter as time passes,” she said. “I am excited for those students who might’ve gained valuable knowledge and life experience
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