Info

hi, i'm preston.

i make films about brands building things that feel like they’re from the future.

startups. weird ideas. strange products. ambitious companies making things that probably shouldn’t exist yet.

i’m obsessed with where media and technology collide. how new technology shapes culture, and how the right story makes people care.

i’ve been doing this for a weirdly long time.

at 11, i sold editing assets online to buy my first camera. then covid hit, and i spent a year in my room learning filmmaking.

at 13, i graduated middle school and flew to dubai to make commercials with one of the world’s largest media agencies. still not sure how that happened lol.

since then, i’ve traveled the world, directed, shot, edited, learned vfx + 3d, got into one of the best film schools, then dropped out on move-in day to work inside startups.

some stuff worked. a lot didn’t. but it made one thing obvious:

turns out, film was only part of it.

i like living between film, technology, startups, design, and culture. taking something hard to explain, finding the human story inside it, and making it feel obvious.

Details

Based in SF | LA | NY

Open for projects worldwide

Preston Chen

Filmmaker & Director

A person with long, curly brown hair leaning against a dark red wall in a low-angle shot. They are wearing a white dress shirt, a patterned black tie, a black blazer, and a black leather jacket with white stitching.
A person with long, curly brown hair leaning against a dark red wall in a low-angle shot. They are wearing a white dress shirt, a patterned black tie, a black blazer, and a black leather jacket with white stitching.
A person with long, curly brown hair leaning against a dark red wall in a low-angle shot. They are wearing a white dress shirt, a patterned black tie, a black blazer, and a black leather jacket with white stitching.
A person with long, curly brown hair leaning against a dark red wall in a low-angle shot. They are wearing a white dress shirt, a patterned black tie, a black blazer, and a black leather jacket with white stitching.
A person with long, curly brown hair leaning against a dark red wall in a low-angle shot. They are wearing a white dress shirt, a patterned black tie, a black blazer, and a black leather jacket with white stitching.

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:

  1. you can’t hope for an opportunity, you have to create it

  1. everything changes when you do.

  1. i believe in making that stays with you after the screen fades to black.

  1. you can fail hundreds of times, but all you need is one success… and that can change the rest of your life

  1. The best years of your life are when you'd rather be an authentic work-in-progress than a fake masterpiece.