Well Go USA

Well Go USA is a film distribution company based in Plano, Texas that focuses on Asian films.

History
Annie was born into a cinematic family in Nanjing, China. Her father was award-winning cinematographer Ho-Hsi Chi, and her brother actor Xiang Yuen Pong. The family moved to Taiwan just before the Chinese Revolution of 1949. Because of the film connections, there were always celebrities hanging out at the house, but Annie had no interest in the film world.

“Dad wanted me to be an actress,” Ann says. “But I was so shy, there was no way. ...But now I’m the only one left in the industry.”

She met her husband, Charles Walker, an American Navy officer, when he was stationed in Taiwan. Because of his job, the family moved around the world, living in Morocco, Spain, Hawaii and several cities in the continental U.S. Ann had worked for Fendi Timepieces in Taiwan, and was transferred to North Texas in the 1990s.

While in Taiwan, her brother asked her to help with distributing a line of karaoke on VHS and LaserDisc. She learned how to license content for several countries in Southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. When one of those companies they licensed to went under, Ann and Doris learned how to do it themselves, moving from manufacturing to sales.

In the 2000s, Well Go grew exponentially by distributing instructional golf DVDs, hip-hop dance videos, filmed productions of spectacles like Riverdance, and children’s programming. Then they were asked to produce and distribute a martial arts video called Combatant.

Well Go’s first major movie to score distributions rights for was 2008’s Ip Man, a popular action film about grandmaster martial artist and Bruce Lee’s mentor Wing Chun, starring megastar Donnie Yen.