Deborah Chow is a Canadian filmmaker, television director and screenwriter known for her independent films and her work on Star Wars television.
13 Facts About Deborah Chow
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Deborah Chow is the half-Chinese daughter of parents who emigrated from Australia to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where she grew up.
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Deborah Chow's Chinese father was an ardent movie fan and introduced to her the world of classic films and filmmaking.
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Deborah Chow graduated from Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario.
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Deborah Chow received her undergraduate degree, major of cultural theory and minor in art history, from McGill University in Montreal, where she made her first short film.
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Deborah Chow began her career writing and directing short films while studying film at university and broke out with her first feature film, The High Cost of Living, in 2010.
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Deborah Chow directed the adaptation of Flowers in the Attic on Lifetime, which starred Heather Graham and Kiernan Shipka.
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Deborah Chow served as director of two episodes of the Disney+ exclusive streaming television series, Star Wars: The Mandalorian, in which she had a cameo role as a New Republic X-wing pilot.
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Deborah Chow was announced as the sole director for the Disney+ series that centers on Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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Deborah Chow directed the music video for "Black Summer", the first single off of the Red Hot Chili Peppers 2022 album, Unlimited Love.
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Deborah Chow was the winner of the 2005 Kodak New Vision Mentorship award for her short film The Hill, the winnings from which included funding for her first feature film.
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Deborah Chow was a participant in the Berlinale Talent Campus, Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab, and the Praxis Screenwriting Lab.
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Deborah Chow received the Andrew Sarris Award at the 2022 Columbia University Film Festival.