[1] In 2020, she received the Best New Director award for Vagón Fumador at the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival.

Her father was a Chinese diplomat,[2] who was from Nanking and who emigrated to Argentina due to the Japanese invasion.

[3] Chen grew up in Texas,[4] living in Dallas for four years and attending school there.

[3] She studied at Escuela Nacional de Experimentación y Realización Cinematográfica,[a][5] which is a film school that is run by the Argentine National Film Board.

[6][7] While attending the school, she worked as editing assistant to Luis César D'Angiolillo and eventually made fifteen films with him.