Po-Yu Chen is a Taiwanese film writer, director, video editor who now based in Los Angeles. He graduated with a Film MFA degree from Columbia University, majoring in Directing/Screenwriting.
He's always interested in the topic of solitude and the close relationship of people in the city and what a transformation of a place could have an impact on an individual. And he is always passionate about digging into deep, complex relationships between characters through the narrative story.
His latest film, The Day He Returns, is under post-production right now. His other works Something in the Water(2020), won 2018 Sloan Foundation production grants and now streaming at the Museum of Moving Image; Happy Birthday to Me(2019), selected to CineCina Film Festival in 2019 premiered in New York City and was selected by Asian Movie Pulse magazine as one of the best films in 2021; Paint Again, selected to screen in 2021 Taiwanese Biennial Film Festival.
His previous shorts also include Dinner, Dialing Game. He’s worked for many outstanding and famous companies like Voice of America, TikTok, Columbia University as a video editor, videographer.
Now he has several projects including a narrative feature film, a short film, and a TV series under development.
