Deborah Chow
Deborah Chow is a director, born 1971.
Short films did the early work. Deborah Chow, born in Toronto in 1971, made Daypass in 2002 and The Hill in 2004, both of which took awards at international festivals, and she wrote and directed her first feature, The High Cost of Living, in 2010.
What followed was a long run of episodic television, which is the normal and almost entirely invisible route: hours of other people's shows, delivered on schedule, accumulating the credibility that eventually gets a director handed something expensive. Her 2014 television adaptation of the V. C. Andrews novel Flowers in the Attic is the fullest piece of that stretch, Gothic melodrama that only works if the director takes a lurid premise completely seriously, and she does.
Star Wars made the name public. She directed on the first season of The Mandalorian and then took charge of the Obi-Wan Kenobi limited series, a different order of job: sustaining one story and one central performance across a whole limited series rather than delivering a self-contained episode inside somebody else's house style.
Movies (3)
TV (2)
Where to start with Deborah Chow
The practical starting point is The Mandalorian, since her season one episode is where the franchise work begins, though the format means her hand is deliberately less visible than the show's overall look. The Obi-Wan Kenobi series itself is not among the credits listed here; what is listed is Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return, the making-of documentary, which is useful if you want to hear her talk about the job rather than watch her do it.
For the actual directing, go to Flowers in the Attic. It is the least fashionable title on this page and the most revealing one, a television movie that commits fully to its own bad taste and is controlled shot by shot. Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian fills in the rest of the Star Wars context. Her independent features are not listed here, and they are the missing piece in any honest picture of her.