Jane Chow
Directing
Biography
Jane Chow is a Los Angeles-based writer-director from Hong Kong. Her short film “Sorry for the Inconvenience” was chosen to screen on Peacock as part of NBCUniversal and Target's Scene in Color Film Series. The film was created through a fellowship with Fifth Season and Ghetto Film School, and has been featured on Variety, NBC’s TODAY Show, and NoBudge. Her previous narrative work, including her international web series “Pineapple”, has screened at Geena Davis’ Bentonville Film Festival and the Oscar-qualifying Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Since graduating from Loyola Marymount University's Film & TV Production program, Jane has directed commercials for TikTok and Tinder, as well as music videos for breakout artists mxmtoon and Tiffany Day. Her work has been featured on Booooooom TV, shots, and NME. Since 2021, Jane has been creating branded content for Synthesis, an education startup born out of the SpaceX lab school. Currently, Jane is writing and developing an original scripted TV series with NBCUniversal and Will Packer Media. She is a member of Women in Film and an alumna of the WIF Mentoring Program.
Known For
In Los Angeles Chinatown, a lonely teenager tries to help her parents keep their seafood restaurant afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sorry for the Inconvenience
At an elite Hong Kong high school, an overachieving leader risks everything to prove she’s a local, while a transfer student fakes a romance with an unattainable girl to keep his old friends from leaving him behind.
Pineapple (菠蘿)
After being promoted to a stressful managerial position, a small-town appliance repairwoman begins noticing unwanted similarities between herself and her autistic brother. To cope with her growing anxiety, she hides away in the garage, tinkering with her grandmother’s eerily difficult washing machine. Little does she know, the machine has other plans for her.