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).
In The News
Exclusive interview with Patricia Chica
(16-page spread)
Cameron Jane (Shine on Hollywood Magazine) March 25th, 2015
“This issue features Patricia Chica. She escaped her war-torn native country and through hard work and dedication became a prolific and award winning director and producer. A story sure to inspire as she discusses her emotionally moving journey and exciting future."
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Patricia Chica directs a Morbidly Funny
Canadian Segment
Sydney Levine (indieWIRE) February 13, 2015
"Patricia Chica is a Canadian/Salvadorian 35-time award winning filmmaker who has built a loyal audience and cult following internationally.
Patricia Chica is a Canadian/Salvadorian 35-time award winning filmmaker who has built a loyal audience and cult following internationally. Her films explore “dark” subject matter in order to find the “light” and frequently feature elements of psychological drama and suspense. Screening in more than 200 international film festivals, her films "Rockabilly 514" "Day Before Yesterday," "CeramicTango," and "Serpent’s Lullaby" have been enthusiastically received by audiences worldwide. Variety recently described her as “a prolific director of shorts and TV projects.” Patricia is attached to direct acclaimed screenplay Wolverine Hotel, a finalist at the Los Cabos Film Co-Production Forum and at the Oaxaca FilmFest."
Rising Female Filmmakers (To Watch)
Tiffany Vallalpando (Dread Central) February 18, 2015
Women in Horror Month opens a dialogue about the inequality in the horror genre. Understanding the gender gap behind the scenes of our favorite films is important. A 2014 study found that among the top grossing films, only 7% were directed by women.
That means only 1 in 14.28 films is directed by a woman.
Although women are better represented as producers at 23%, writers fell in at 11%, and cinematographers at 5%. The divide is huge. However, the horror genre is lucky enough to have many brilliant women actively making films and pushing to close the gender gap. Here is an extensive list of women filmmakers in horror to keep an eye out for in 2015.
Director Patricia Chica is known for making bold, edgy, and visually striking independent films. Her segment from the WiHM Massive Blood Drive PSA is being developed into a longer short entitled A Tricky Treat. Chica’s short films Ceramic Tango and Day Before Yesterday have won multiple awards, and she is currently developing her first full length film.
Exclusive Interview with Patricia Chica
Scubagal (iLoveHatePhotography BLOG) February 25, 2015
Patricia Chica has directed, produced, and edited over 50 hours of programming for international film and television markets, including Sony, Showtime, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Showcase, CBC, Animal Planet, and Bravo. I feel so lucky to have the opportunity to meet with the amazing this director and winner of over 35 awards in North America, Europe and Australia.
(INTERVIEW) "Ripe N' Bloody" director Patricia Chica
& producer Tara Kurtz
Doug Tilley (Daily Grindhouse) February 18, 2015
We were privileged enough to get some time to chat with internationally renowned director Patricia Chica and her wonderful producer Tara Kurtz about working on the segment RIPE N’ BLOODY (soon to be available in an expanded version called A TRICKY TREAT) from the PSA. We also delved into some of the larger issues surrounding Women In Horror Month, the personal significance of the blood drive, and how the heck you get a high quality severed head.
Crime Thriller 'Wolverine Hotel' Finds Financing
(EXCLUSIVE)
Pat Saperstein (Variety) November 13, 2014
“Being directed by a young up-and-coming filmmaker like Patricia Chica, with a strong creative vision, this film has the potential to also do well in the international film festival circuit,” said Després. Martin is at the Los Cabos Film Festival with the Canadian delegation, and has “Wolverine Hotel” in Los Cabos’ Mexico-U.S.-Canada Co-production Forum, will now look to raise the other 50% of the $1.5 million production.
A prolific director of shorts and TV projects, Chica (pictured) make her feature directing debut on “Wolverine Hotel.” Her short “Serpent’s Lullaby” won Cannes’ Coup de Coeur honor.
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Jeremy Kay (Screen Daily) November 13, 2014
Byron A Martin Productions’ Los Cabos International Film Festival co-production forum selection Wolverine Hotel has secured financing.
As the festival got underway this week in Mexico, Martin announced that executive producer Jean-Guy Després has boarded the thriller starring Riley Keough.
Latina Canadian filmmaker Patricia Chica will direct the story with a supernatural twist about three drug addicts. Andrew Lynch wrote the screenplay.
“I accepted to get involved in the financing of Wolverine Hotel because I find the project extremely viable both from a commercial and financial points of view,” said Després.
“Being directed by a young up-and-coming filmmaker like Patricia Chica, with a strong creative vision, this film has the potential to also do well in the international film festival circuit.” »
Wolverine Hotel (Top Screen Daily & IMDB News)
One last Tango at the Oaxaca FilmFest.
Jorge Luis Tercero Alvizo (Indie Rocks) September 29, 2013
TRANSLATION FROM SPANISH:
A fierce struggle against the internal enemy is what the main character will have to fight against in a claustrophobic bathroom; life and death that revolve around the musings. With a narrative much like Memento (2000) by Chris Nolan, Patricia Chica's short tells the dark tale of a young man who has to remember how he got to the situation where he is, while resisting a mysterious murderer whose reflections torture him with perversion.A fairly well-told short film, which unexpected elements assails the viewers as when thoughts spring into consciousness without any warning.
Born in El Salvador and raised in Montréal, Quebec, Patricia Chica is a 30-time award-winning director who specializes in psychological dramas, thrillers and edgy documentaries. Chica's work has been presented and/or awarded at over 75 international film festivals, theatres, art centers, universities and on television around the world. Canada, the USA, Mexico & El Salvador have presented retrospectives of her short films.
Ceramic Tango (American review)
Chris Rennirt (Space Jockey Reviews) September 12, 2013
Director Patricia Chica has crafted ten taught minutes of more than efficiently-filmed happenings that stimulate the senses and peak curiosity.
Through her vision we are compelled, easily, to see it through, without, even for a second, thinking of time. Stream-of-consciousness editing moves fluidly and frenetically with the mind of the character, the motion of bodies writhing, mounting tension, and ultimately with the mind of the viewer. Ceramic Tango is total unity of humanness with denial, regret, visceral fear, and fate.
What's been lurking in your bathroom?
Tomer Shavit (The Concordian) February 4, 2014
When most people think about horror movies, their minds conjure up images of deranged serial killers, fearsome monsters and otherworldly demons.
Ceramic Tango, a short film created by award winning Montreal filmmaker, Patricia Chica, is a different kind of horror, and it cuts deeper than any conventional slasher flick.The film has garnered much support in the horror community, culminating in winning the Best Film award from the prestigious Shockfest film festival.