Chia-Yi Renée Chao creates environments and sets for film. Her latest projects brought her the exceptional opportunities to design and collaborate in China as the Supervising Art Director on Blood: The Last Vampire and in Hong Kong as the Production Designer on Fog, director Kit Hui’s feature début.
Her production design credits also include: feature films Greetings From the Shore, Quarter Life Crisis, and Killer by Nature, short films Long Distance, Mr. A, and Vacation (Best Production Design- Columbia University Film Festival 2007), and Billy Ray Cyrus’s music video, Wanna Be Your Joe.
Renée was born in New York City and raised in Taiwan before moving to California after grade school. She studied architecture as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, and continued her graduate studies in Set & Production Design at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Following her studies, Renée began production designing short films and assisting in the art departments of feature films.
Amongst the short films were, Missing (Cannes Film Festival 2005) and The Hill (Toronto International Film Festival 2004). In addition, she assisted in the art departments of Paramount Pictures’ How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days, Fay Ann Lee’s Falling for Grace, and Jeff Lipsky’s Flannel Pajamas.
Renée is affiliated with IATSE Local USA-829.
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