About

As a Taiwanese-American writer/director and designer, Grace Chen draws upon her background as a painter, musician, photographer, and theatre actor and director to bolster her storytelling. Born and raised in Arlington, VA, she has been fortunate enough to call DC her home as a Frederick Douglass Distinguished Scholar at American University.

Grace’s commitment to weaving and uplifting diverse and surreal stories through representasian and artivism is evident through her film portfolio, along with her work with the Gotham Film and Media Institute as a Narrative Programming Fellow and the Gotham's EDU branch as a Film and Career Development Fellow. She has worked 20+ film sets ranging from student shorts to music videos, corporate shoots to professional Netflix sets as a PA, grip, AD, scripty, and SFX MUA. In spring 2024, she wrote and directed a 16mm narrative short film, "Mamince" (Czech for "To My Mother"), at FAMU International in Prague. Grace was one of 50 students accepted to the 50th Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium and was a member of the inaugural cohort of nine students in the Student Summit for the 22nd Lake Placid Film Festival.