Corrie Chen is a Taiwanese-Australian filmmaker, writer, and director. She is known for her work on '' New Gold Mountain'' and '' Bad Behaviour''.

Early life

Chen grew up in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

. She moved to Australia in 1994 when she was 8. Her father gifted her his old video camera when she was 12. She attended the Victorian College of the Arts and received a Bachelor of Film and Television (Hons) in 2008 and then a Master of Film and Television in 2011.

Career

After directing short films and serving as a director's attachment on shows such as ''The Leftovers'', Chen was brought on to direct three episodes of ''

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''. This then led to additional television directing gigs such as for ''Sisters'' and ''Homecoming Queens''. As far back as 2011, Chen had been dreaming of a project dealing with ethnic tensions during

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. That time period fascinated Chen since she was in grade school. In 2021, she directed the 1857-set, '' New Gold Mountain.'' Chen joined the television adaptation of ''Bad Behaviour'' in 2019. The show premiered in 2023.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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