PatriciaChica.com
Award-Winning Film & Television
Director, Producer & Editor
Motivational Speaker / Lecturer / Creative Consultant
Bold, Edgy, Thought-Provoking
Shoots worldwide in 3 languages (EN, FR. SP).
About
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ON THE LIST OF THE "RISING FEMALE FILMMAKERS" TO WATCH! (Dread Central)
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Patricia Chica has a BFA, with distinction, from Concordia University’s Film Production Program and is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada. She is part of the 2018 TIFF Filmmaker Lab, a recipient of the Temerty Family Fellowship - Share Her Journey Program and an alumna of the SODEC_Lab. Variety calls her "a prolific director of shorts and TV projects."
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Patricia Chica specializes in high-quality author driven films that have great international and commercial appeal. Patricia has also directed and produced world-class primetime broadcast content for networks such as National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Showcase, Oxygen, Animal Planet, Bravo Canada, Canal D, ARTV, CBC and Travel Channel, UniMás, and El Rey Network just to name a few. She is perfectly fluent in English, French and Spanish and has build cult following and a loyal audience for herself internationally in those three markets.
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Patricia has a genuine interest in exploring thought-provoking stories that deal with complex behavior, the search for meaning, and the darker side of the human experience. Strongly inspired by real-life psychosocial issues that shape our choices, she strives to present an authentic and realistic portrayal of the emotional human landscape. Her visual style has been described as provocative and poetic.
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ACADEMIC EDUCATION
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• Baccalaureate in Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude (With Distinction) Cinema – Option Film Production - Minor in French literature
Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
• D.E.C. in Arts (option Cinema with distinction)
+ Art History, Psychology and Anthropology courses
Bois-de-Boulogne College, Montreal, QC, Canada
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ADDITIONAL TRAINING
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• TIFF Filmmaker Lab - Selected Filmmaker
Creative Development Program
Toronto International Film Festival
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• The Enlightened Actor - Teacher Training
Certified Acting Coach of the Mayans Method
Nancy Mayans
Los Angeles, CA
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• Rock Star Marketing Bootcamp
Craig Duswalt
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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• Guerrilla Business School & Mastermind Stock Traders.
Peak Potentials
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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• Acting / Directing Actors workshop with award-winning director, acting coach and casting director Ron Leach.
Perfecting the 'on camera' dynamics for actors.
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• R.I.D. Acting School - Acting teacher/mentor Gilles Plouffe Learning the mechanics and psychology of acting and acting directing. (Montreal)
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• INIS National Institute of Image and Sound / UQAM Television production (production, distribution, business, management, legal and financing) - Montreal
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• New Dominion Pictures Studios (Suffolk, Virginia, USA) Intensive 3-day training on reenactments directing for CSI/Paranormal TV productions.
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• Documentary Directing Training (From Script to Post) National Film Board of Canada • Invited by Women In Film Montreal (FCTVM)
Fond of exploring edgier themes and taboo subjects that question the definitions of memory, sexuality, identity and consciousness, Patricia loves crafting strong characters, exploring mood and tone, and exhibiting visual ingenuity; all while delivering an engaging, thought-provoking and entertaining story.
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Patricia's previous acclaimed films include Day Before Yesterday (2010, winner of over 10 awards) and The Promise (2000, winner of 10 awards) just to name a few. She also co-directed the award-winning feature documentary Rockabilly 514 (aired on Bravo! Canada, Canal D as well as in the US and Europe). Her genre short dramas Ceramic Tango (2013), Serpent's Lullaby (2014-"Coup de Coeur" mention at the Cannes Film Festival's Short Film Corner), A Tricky Treat (2015) have received multiple awards. Her latest shorts Crimson Dance (2016) and Morning After (2017) an LGBT fluid drama, are presently touring the festival circuit.
Patricia Chica's work has been presented and/or awarded at over 300 international film festivals, theatres, art centers, universities, museums, and on television around the world. Countries like Canada, the USA, and Mexico, as well as El Salvador (her birth country) have presented retrospectives of her films in the past three years.
Patricia Chica divides her time between Los Angeles and Montreal.
To be continued...
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
– Alfred Hitchcock
© Patricia Chica, Self Portrait 2006