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name: "Stephen Chin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/stephen-chin"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T09:47:29.987599+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Stephen Chin

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0157787/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1394533

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*War Dogs*](https://film.one/film/war-dogs.md) (55)

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## Biography

Stephen Chin is a screenwriter and producer. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 2016 film *War Dogs*, directed by Todd Phillips and based on a Rolling Stone article about arms dealers. The project drew on his own experiences in Iraq in 2004, which had earlier informed his unproduced screenplay *I Rock Iraq*, listed on the 2007 Black List.

In the late 1990s Chin worked as a producer on independent films including *Gummo* (1997) and *Another Day in Paradise* (1998), on which he also received a writing credit. He had previously graduated from Yale Law School and worked as a lawyer in Washington, D.C., before moving into film production and associating with Miramax.

*Sources: nytimes.com, imdb.com, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *War Dogs* (2016), Fi1m 55, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/war-dogs.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *War Dogs* (2016), Writer — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/war-dogs.md)
- *Play It to the Bone* (1999), Producer
- *Another Day in Paradise* (1998), Writer, Producer
- *Gummo* (1997), Executive Producer
- *Kung Fu*, Writer
- *Nemesis*, Writer

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