Perry S. Chen
- Animation Department
- Director
- Writer
Perry S. Chen is a writer, film director, artist, and speaker, best known for writing and directing the 2019 Oscar-qualified animation short film Changyou's Journey, based on his late father's life, produced by his mother, Dr. Zhu Shen. Chen started making the film at age 12, days before his father Changyou passed away, and completed at age 17 while in high school. The film premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, screened at 19 international film festivals, and won five film festival awards at Newport Beach Film Festival, Arizona International Film Festival, Los Angeles Animation Festival, Palm Springs International Animation Festival, and Film Now Festival in 2018.
Chen's first film was as the sole animator of the critically acclaimed 2011 animation short, Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest, with character design and storyboard by Bill Plympton, about a young Holocaust survivor which won three US film festival awards and screened at over 30 international film festivals. At age 11, Chen was the youngest animator to qualify for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Chen was among 70 animators of Bill Plympton's 2011 Guard Dog Global Jam, an animated short based on Plympton's 2004 Oscar-nominated short, Guard Dog.
Chen's other claim to fame was for his movie and entertainment reviews that he started writing at age eight on his Perry's Previews web site, and later for the San Diego Union Tribune, Animation World Network, Amazing Kids Magazine, and Dining Out magazine. He won numerous San Diego Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards, and Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for his movie, restaurant, and theater reviews from 2010 to 2018. Chen had been featured on CBS, NPR, NBC, Fox, Variety, Animation Magazine, China Central Television, and other regional, national, and international media.
Chen's first film was as the sole animator of the critically acclaimed 2011 animation short, Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest, with character design and storyboard by Bill Plympton, about a young Holocaust survivor which won three US film festival awards and screened at over 30 international film festivals. At age 11, Chen was the youngest animator to qualify for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Chen was among 70 animators of Bill Plympton's 2011 Guard Dog Global Jam, an animated short based on Plympton's 2004 Oscar-nominated short, Guard Dog.
Chen's other claim to fame was for his movie and entertainment reviews that he started writing at age eight on his Perry's Previews web site, and later for the San Diego Union Tribune, Animation World Network, Amazing Kids Magazine, and Dining Out magazine. He won numerous San Diego Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards, and Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for his movie, restaurant, and theater reviews from 2010 to 2018. Chen had been featured on CBS, NPR, NBC, Fox, Variety, Animation Magazine, China Central Television, and other regional, national, and international media.