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Patrick Shen

Los Angeles

Director

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Title/Occupation:  Director 

Gender: Male

Race: Asian/Pacific Islander

Citizenship: USA

Biography: Patrick has been involved in the entertainment business since the age of 16 when he first performed on stage as a musician with his ridiculously awesome metal band, Apocalypse. Soon after that he would discover his second passion in life while taking a video/film production course at Mission Viejo High School, California. It is there where he would achieve super video geek status, spending three to five hours a day shooting and editing short films. While attending college to pursue degrees in psychology and philosophy, Patrick began to receive job offers to produce and edit corporate videos and commercials for such clients as Kingston Technology, Gucci, Toshiba, and Yamaha. On the side, Patrick would feed his music habit, performing in bands and composing soundtracks for various short films and corporations such as Lexus and Toyota. In 1996, Patrick landed a full-time position at E! Entertainment Television performing roles such as audio engineer, Chyron operator, and teleprompter on Emmy Award winning shows like Talk Soup and E! News. Four years later, he left E! to pursue work in documentaries full-time, beginning with a role as Second Unit Director on the Emmy-nominated We Served With Pride, which resulted in a meeting with President Clinton in the Oval Office. Shortly after leaving E!, Patrick founded Transcendental Media, an independent film production company whose goal is to create films and documentaries to "agitate the sleep of mankind". The first feature project to be completed under the TM designation came in 2003 with the multi-award winning, Flight from Death: the Quest for Immortality. Flight from Death was Patrick's first feature-length film, which he directed, edited, co-wrote, and co-produced. This critically acclaimed film, beautifully photographed in eight countries and three years in the making, earned seven "Best Documentary" awards at film festivals around the country. Flight from Death was released domestically in 2005, in Australia and New Zealand in 2006, and continues to screen at universities, theaters, and TV stations all over the world. In February of 2008, Patrick completed Change Your Life!, a mockumentary feature film, which he co-directed and edited, about the world of multi-level marketing and pyramid schemes starring Tony Plana ('Ugly Betty", "24", Three Amigos, JFK) and Taylor Negron (Fast Times at Ridgemont High). Patrick is currently developing some narrative projects and just premiered (Silverdocs 2009) his latest, The Philosopher Kings, a feature documentary about wisdom found among the custodial staff of America's educational institutions.