Deborah Chow

Deborah Chow was born in Toronto, Canada, shortly after her parents emigrated from Australia. She directed her first film while an undergraduate at McGill University, and completed her M.F.A in film at Columbia University. Her graduate thesis, "Daypass," screened internationally at over thirty-five festivals, and won several awards including Best Actor (James Urbaniak) at the Milano Film Festival and Best Film at Turin. Her most recent short, "The Hill", premiered at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival, and has since screened at a multitude of festivals—as well as being broadcast on CBC, PBS and Rogers Canada. She was awarded the inaugural Kodak New Vision Mentorship under the guidance of acclaimed director Patricia Rozema to develop "The High Cost of Living," as well as being awarded a Canada Council screenwriting grant for the same purpose. She attended the 2005 Berlinale Talent Campus, the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab, and is currently developing several feature projects.

The first act of Deborah's feature THE HIGH COST OF LIVING was showcased at the November 2006 WILDsound Screenplay Reading Series Event.