Jean Tsien

Production

Jean Tsien

Place of birth

Taiwan

Known for

Production

Credits

7 titles

Jean Tsien is a Taiwan-born documentary editor and producer based in New York.

Known for

Island in Between poster
6.3

The rural Taiwanese outer islands of Kinmen sit merely 2 miles off the coast of China. Kinmen attracts tourists for its remains from the 1949 Chinese Civil War. It also marks the frontline for Taiwan in its escalating tension with China.

Island in Between

2023

Free Chol Soo Lee poster
7.2

On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old Korean immigrant who had previous run-ins with the law, was arrested and convicted based on flimsy evidence and the eyewitness accounts of white tourists who couldn’t distinguish between Asian features. Sentenced to life in prison, Chol Soo Lee would spend years fighting to survive behind bars before journalist K.W. Lee took an interest in his case. The intrepid reporter’s investigation would galvanize a first-of-its-kind pan-Asian American grassroots movement to fight for Chol Soo Lee’s freedom, ultimately inspiring a new generation of social justice activists.

Free Chol Soo Lee

2022

aka Mr. Chow poster
6.6

With his signature circular glasses and mustache, Michael Chow is an exuberant force at the crossroads between eccentricity and sophistication. The famed restaurateur defined “The Moment” with the openings of Mr. Chow, the bustling upscale Chinese eateries that attracted the glitterati of Swingin’ London, 70s Hollywood, and post Studio 54 New York.

aka Mr. Chow

2023

No artwork available
NR

Almost three decades after a screen lit up the darkness of a refugee camp, a filmmaker looks back on the fleeting encounter that became the unexpected beginning of her life in cinema.

The Kid from Kosova

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76 Days poster
7.2

Raw and intimate, this documentary captures the struggles of patients and frontline medical professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan.

76 Days

2020

Drivers Wanted poster
NR

An impossibly eclectic community behind the doors of a taxi garage in Queens.

Drivers Wanted

2012

Behind the camera

Island in Between poster
6.3

The rural Taiwanese outer islands of Kinmen sit merely 2 miles off the coast of China. Kinmen attracts tourists for its remains from the 1949 Chinese Civil War. It also marks the frontline for Taiwan in its escalating tension with China.

Island in Between

2023

Free Chol Soo Lee poster
7.2

On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old Korean immigrant who had previous run-ins with the law, was arrested and convicted based on flimsy evidence and the eyewitness accounts of white tourists who couldn’t distinguish between Asian features. Sentenced to life in prison, Chol Soo Lee would spend years fighting to survive behind bars before journalist K.W. Lee took an interest in his case. The intrepid reporter’s investigation would galvanize a first-of-its-kind pan-Asian American grassroots movement to fight for Chol Soo Lee’s freedom, ultimately inspiring a new generation of social justice activists.

Free Chol Soo Lee

2022

aka Mr. Chow poster
6.6

With his signature circular glasses and mustache, Michael Chow is an exuberant force at the crossroads between eccentricity and sophistication. The famed restaurateur defined “The Moment” with the openings of Mr. Chow, the bustling upscale Chinese eateries that attracted the glitterati of Swingin’ London, 70s Hollywood, and post Studio 54 New York.

aka Mr. Chow

2023

No artwork available
NR

Almost three decades after a screen lit up the darkness of a refugee camp, a filmmaker looks back on the fleeting encounter that became the unexpected beginning of her life in cinema.

The Kid from Kosova

—

No artwork available
NR

Almost three decades after a screen lit up the darkness of a refugee camp, a filmmaker looks back on the fleeting encounter that became the unexpected beginning of her life in cinema.

The Kid from Kosova

—

76 Days poster
7.2

Raw and intimate, this documentary captures the struggles of patients and frontline medical professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan.

76 Days

2020

Drivers Wanted poster
NR

An impossibly eclectic community behind the doors of a taxi garage in Queens.

Drivers Wanted

2012