Info
hi, i'm preston.
i make films about people building things that feel like they’re from the future.
startups. weird ideas. strange products. ambitious brands trying to make something that probably shouldn’t exist yet.
i’m especially interested in the place where media + technology collide... how new technology changes culture, and how the right story can make people actually care about it.
i’ve been doing this for a weirdly long time.
At 11, i started selling editing assets online to buy my first camera. then covid happened, so i locked myself in my room for a year and learned everything i could about filmmaking.
somehow, that ended with me graduating middle school and flying to dubai at 13 to work on commercials with one of the world’s largest media agencies.
still not entirely sure how that happened lol.
since then, i’ve traveled around the world, directed, shot, edited, learned vfx + 3d, got accepted into one of the best film schools, then dropped out during move-in day to go work inside startups.
some stuff worked out. a lot of it didn’t. but somewhere in there, i became increasingly obsessed with building things beyond films.
thing is, i don’t think i’ve ever wanted to be just a filmmaker.
i like sitting somewhere between film, technology, startups, design, and culture.
taking something that’s hard to explain, finding the human story inside it, and making it suddenly feel obvious.
tldr: i want to work with ambitious brands building cool new things, then make the media that helps the rest of the world see what they see.
i like to coin it as "world building"
and hopefully with my art, inspire a few people from my generation.
Details
Based in San Francisco - New York - LA
Open for projects worldwide
Preston Chen
Filmmaker & Director

Services
Brand Films
Commercial Films
Launch Videos
Documentary
Short Films
Creative Direction
Cinematography
Video Editing
Color Grading
Motion Graphics
Post-Production
Selected Clients
A16z
HBO: House of the Dragon
Rolls Royce
Sperm Racing
Dubai Holdings
Breitling
Astrocade
Qatar Airways
Here's some of my values & beliefs:
you can’t hope for an opportunity, you have to create it
everything changes when you do.
i believe in making that stays with you after the screen fades to black.
you can faill hundreds of times, but all you need is one success… and that can change the rest of your life
pain of discipline over pain of regret.


