Benedict Chiu is a Taiwanese-American filmmaker originally from Saratoga, CA. He graduated from USC with a joint degree in Business Administration and Cinematic Arts. He worked at the NBCUniversal Page Program, APA Agency, and Scott Free Productions, before being selected for the Warner Bros. Television Writers' Workshop. He was most recently a staff writer on Season 3 of CALL ME KAT (FOX). He is also an SFFilm Rainin Grant finalist for his feature film S.Q.A.G. (SHORT QUIET ASIAN GIRL).
As a writer-director, Benedict’s K-Pop horror short film BOY BAND starring Jay Lee (CSI: Vegas), premiered at CAAMFest and played at HollyShorts Monthly Screening and Aesthetica Short Film Festival in its ongoing festival run. It will make its East Coast premiere at Dances With Films NY.
He also wrote and directed SQAG (2022) (the basis of the aforementioned feature), which premiered at New York Asian Film Festival and LA Shorts Fest, DANCING SHOES (2018), which was featured in Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie’s “Danser” exhibition in Paris, France, and SICK SUPERHERO (2017), which won the DJI Campus Stories Short Film Competition.