Shirley Chan

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Cinematographer/Editor

Brooklyn, NY US

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I’m a queer, Taiwanese-American cinematographer, and sometimes video editor, based in Brooklyn focusing on documentary, commercial, experimental, and narrative films.

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Shirley Chan is a Taiwanese-American, Brooklyn-based cinematographer and sometimes editor working in the documentary, branded, fine art, and narrative space. Her clients include Saint Heron, Nike, Meta, Levi’s, Chevrolet, Arc’teryx, Neutrogena, Coca-Cola, WhatsApp, and institutions like The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Art Gallery of New South Wales and more. You can also find her work in Vox, New York Times Cooking, BBC, NBC, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Conde Nast, More Perfect Union, Remezcla, Slate, Huffpost, and Oregon Public Broadcasting. Her narrative (Friend of Sophia, Missile) and documentary (Breadwinners) films she’s lensed have screened at film festivals around the US.

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