Po-Yu Chen is a Taiwanese film director based in New York. He’s also a MFA candidate at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Before coming to New York, Chen worked as a crew member on the film Silence by Martin Scorsese. The production drove his ambition to direct. The topics of solitude and close relationships between people in the city feature heavily in Chen’s work. Besides narrative film, he has also participated in documentary production. Chen’s latest film, Something in the Water, won a 2018 Sloan Foundation production grant. His previous shorts include Dinner, Paint Again, and Happy Birthday to Me.
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