Lingwei Chen

Paloma Lingwei Chen was born in Beijing, China, in 1991, to a Spanish father and a Chinese mother. She made her first video at the age of 18, and developed a creative way of expressing herself through visuals, such as moving vegetables to create stop-motion videos. In 2013, after getting her degree in TV Journalism from Sichuan University, she became a video-journalist in Guangzhou Daily - One of South China's most popular newspapers - and did short documentaries for 3 years, carrying the camera and tripod everywhere. In 2016, she came to the U.S. and started to pursue an MFA degree in Film Production at Chapman University.