Leo Chen
Filmmaker at Freelance
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeo Chen is a Toronto-born filmmaker and assistant director with 11 years of hands-on experience delivering complex productions across North America and China. He has worked on high-profile features such as The Eight Hundred and Stray, coordinated large-scale action, stunt and animal sequences, and served as 1st AD for music videos and studio-backed projects, demonstrating strong production leadership under tight schedules and budgets. Trained at NYFA and grounded in a political science BA from the University of Toronto, he blends disciplined planning with a storyteller’s sensibility, often writing, producing, shooting and editing his own layered projects between AD duties. Known for bringing out the best in diverse casts and crews, Leo pairs creative problem-solving with multilingual/ multicultural set experience gained from coordinating foreign actors and international productions.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Dr. Norman Bethune Collegiate Institute1-Year Filmmaking Conservatory, 1-Year Filmmaking Conservatory at New York Film AcademyBachelor’s Degree, Political Science and Government, Bachelor’s Degree, Political Science and Government at University of Toronto
Github Skills (7)
beego7
golang6
programming-language6
high-performance6
go5
web-performance2
web-framework2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cheney/learning
Dec 2016 - May 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
cheney/golang_game_ipc_demo
Dec 2014 - Sep 2021
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 6 years 10 months
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