Website of Author and Award-Winning
Filmmaker Patricia Chica
About THE AUTHOR
Born in El Salvador, Patricia Chica is a Canadian award-winning director, producer, energy influencer and coach whose mission is to bridge the gap between storytelling, performance and Chi Energy within the film industry. Chica is committed to bringing strong messages to her stories and conscious practices to her work environments for an even more positive and inclusive culture. She strives to champion her team members through coaching, self-development, and continuous growth opportunities. For that reason, she has created a method that makes it very easy to understand metaphysical concepts through simple techniques everyone can use to elevate their creativity, mindset, communication skills and intuition.
Patricia Chica is an alumna, cum laude, of the Concordia University Film Production department, the TIFF Filmmaker Lab, the Netflix-Banff Diversity Of Voices program, the SODEC_Lab in Cannes, the MAFIZ Lab in Malaga, and an active member of the Directors Guild of Canada, Film Fatales, Women in Film and many more. As a clairvoyant and healer herself, she has extensively studied various energy modalities (kundalini, yoga, reiki, role-play) with numerous mentors such shamans, spiritual leaders and personal development masters from around the world. She divides her time between Los Angeles, film festivals and her hometown Montreal. Her debut dramatic feature entitled Montréal Girls has been funded by Telefilm, Sodec and the Harold Greenberg Fund and is slated for 2022. Montréal Girls will be the first feature film ever made with the use of Chi Energy.
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Photo: © Camille Fadl, Los Angeles
THE BOOK
EMPATHY IS BULLSH!T
When award-winning filmmaker Patricia Chica was a child, she endured the horrors of a civil war in her homeland—El Salvador. In order to save their lives, her family fled to Montreal, Canada and asked for war refugee status.
Even though she had survived the terrors of war, nothing could have ever prepared her enough to overcome the horrific and toxic behavior of some narcissistic collaborators that have crossed her path as an adult. As any empath, she’s found herself the target of psychologically abusive colleagues within the industry and she’s here to tell you, Empathy is bullsh!t. If you’re going to survive the sweeping tides of working in film and television, and successfully live to tell about it, you’re going to need a better process.
Here, Patricia shares her mission to transform empathy into compassion in order to bring safer, healthier and more harmonious work environments to her own film productions. As a storyteller, clairvoyant and healer herself, Patricia is known for using the powers of Chi Energy, consciousness and the laws of nature to elevate the vibration and creativity of her actors and collaborators in rehearsal, on set, and even while developing scripts.
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In this hybrid self-help book, part memoir, part How To, you’ll learn easy energy techniques to conquer your fears, doubts, ego and most importantly, your bullies, in order to accelerate your results.
IN THE MEDIA
"As a screenwriter, actor and producer myself, I believe, especially during these challenging times, it's more important to be centered, reflective and mindful toward shutting out the noise and negativity and keeping oneself motivated and inspired. Patricia Chica's teachings will help you to maintain balance, clarity and put you in a position to dive deep into the pool of your creativity."
RICHARD 'RB' BOTTO
CEO, Stage 32