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Patricia Chica is a 60-time award-winning film and television director, producer, writer and editor who specializes in world-class productions in the genre of psychological dramas, thrillers, and edgy documentaries. Since the beginning of her career in the 1990's, Patricia has directed, produced, and/or edited over 60 hours of programming aimed at the international film and television markets, including content for Sony, Showtime, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Oxygen, Animal Planet, Showcase, CBC, ARTV, and Bravo! Canada just to name a few.
The reference film site Dread Central wrote "Patricia Chica is known for making bold, edgy, and visually striking independent films" and put her on the list of the "Rising Female Filmmakers" . Variety wrote that she is "a prolific director of shorts and TV projects". Patricia Chica is an alumna of the TIFF Filmmaker Lab, the CMPA Pre-Sales Pitches in L.A. program, as well as a recipient of the Temerty Family Fellowship - Share Her Journey Program and of the SODEC_LAB.
Patricia Chica was born in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, in the seventies from middle class parents; a mother of Italian descent and a Salvadorian father. She is the oldest of four children. Because of the civil war that struck in El Salvador in the early eighties, on January 24th, 1981, Patricia and her family fled death squads for the safety of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1985. In 1996, she graduated (Cum Laude) from the Film Production department at Concordia University. Right after graduation, Patricia won a grant from the OFQJ to go do her professional internship at Ellabel Productions in Paris where she learned fiction cinema production in the French system. This was followed by another grant given by the Montreal Women in Film Association (FCTVM) to learn documentary cinema directing at the National Film Board of Canada. Patricia Chica directed her first video at age 16 while still in High School (Chomedey Polyvalent High School in Laval, Quebec, Canada) and has never stopped making movies since then. Before she became known as a director-producer, she worked for eight years as a casting director with her company ChicArt Productions.
Those formative years allowed her to become familiar with the acting process and directing actors while casting projects like The List (2000) (starring Ryan O'Neal and Ben Gazarra), Bonanno: A Godfather's Story (1999) (Showtime drama series), Something Organic (1998), Bertrand Bonnello's first feature starring Romane Bohringer and Laurent Lucas.
Up until 2001, Patricia conducted over 2000 auditions for films, TV series and commercials shot in Montreal and abroad. After deciding to close her casting agency in order to concentrate full time on her real passion, directing, she started producing her first professional short films and music videos (Roch Voisine, Lili Fatale, Ten Zen, Kelly Padrick).
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