JESSICA Q. CHEN
JESSICA Q. CHEN
Emmy-Winning Producer & Post-Production Specialist

 Films

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The Last Repair Shop

Winner of the 2023 Academy Award for Best Short Documentary.

Associate Producer and Series Producer that selected and developed the full second season of L.A. Times Short Docs, a first-time division of L.A. Times Studios. Promoted the film and assisted with distribution and FYC campaign. Directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers.

World Premiere at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival.

Associate producer to Nick Quested and Sebastian Junger for the award-winning National Geographic Documentary and earned an Alfred I. du-Pont Columbia University Award for Excellence in Journalism and Investigative Reporting in 2018.

Post-production management as head researcher to complete a feature documentary pulling from nearly 1,000 hours of visceral footage on Syria’s descent into the unbridled chaos that allowed the rise of the Islamic State with Oscar-winning filmmakers Sebastian Junger, Nick Quested, and Mark Monroe.

This is Who I Am


In 2017, I edited a 30-minute short documentary on Pat Manuel, the first transgender U.S. Boxer to fight as a woman and then as a man for the Los Angeles Times. Cinematography was by Christina House and photo is by Wally Skalij.