Tze Chun
Encyclopedia
Tze Chun is an award-winning American
film director
and writer
. He was born in Chicago and raised outside of Boston, and graduated from Milton Academy in 1997. He received his bachelor's degree in film studies at Columbia University.
His debut feature film, Children of Invention
, premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival
, screened at over 50 film festivals, won 17 festival awards including 8 Grand Jury or Best Narrative Feature prizes, and was released theatrically in 8 cities, on DVD, and on VOD in 2010. Chun has also directed numerous shorts, including Windowbreaker, a selection of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival
. Chun was one of the staff writers for the ABC television series Cashmere Mafia
, starring Lucy Liu
.
In 2007, Chun was named one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" by Filmmaker Magazine
.
In 2009, Chun received the Puma Emerging Filmmaker Award at the 2009 Hawaii International Film Festival and the George C. Lin Emerging Filmmaker Award at the DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival
.
During Comic-Con 2010 in San Diego, it was announced that Will Eisner
's groundbreaking graphic novel A Contract With God
will be adapted into a feature film, with Chun directing one of the story's four chapters.
Cinema of the United States
The cinema of the United States, also known as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period...
film director
Film director
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and writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
. He was born in Chicago and raised outside of Boston, and graduated from Milton Academy in 1997. He received his bachelor's degree in film studies at Columbia University.
His debut feature film, Children of Invention
Children of Invention
Children of Invention is an American independent feature film written and directed by Tze Chun. It premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, screened at more than 50 film festivals, and won 17 festival awards including 8 Grand Jury or Best Narrative Feature prizes. The film was released...
, premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival
2009 Sundance Film Festival
The 2009 Sundance Film Festival ran from January 15, 2009 until January 25 in Park City, Utah. It was the 25th iteration of the Sundance Film Festival.-Award winners:*Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - We Live in Public...
, screened at over 50 film festivals, won 17 festival awards including 8 Grand Jury or Best Narrative Feature prizes, and was released theatrically in 8 cities, on DVD, and on VOD in 2010. Chun has also directed numerous shorts, including Windowbreaker, a selection of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival
2007 Sundance Film Festival
The 2007 Sundance Film Festival ran from January 18 until January 28, 2007 in Park City, Utah with screenings in Salt Lake City, Utah and Ogden, Utah. It was the 23-rd iteration of the Sundance Film Festival...
. Chun was one of the staff writers for the ABC television series Cashmere Mafia
Cashmere Mafia
Cashmere Mafia is an American television dramedy which ran on ABC from January 6, 2008 to February 20, 2008. The series was created by Kevin Wade, who also served as executive producer alongside Darren Star, Gail Katz, Jeff Rake and Michael Pressman, with Susie Fitzgerald co-executive producing....
, starring Lucy Liu
Lucy Liu
Lucy Alexis Liu is an American actress and film producer. She became known for playing the role of the vicious and ill-mannered Ling Woo in the television series Ally McBeal , and has also appeared in several Hollywood films including Charlie's Angels, Chicago, Kill Bill, and Kung Fu Panda.-Early...
.
In 2007, Chun was named one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" by Filmmaker Magazine
Filmmaker Magazine
Filmmaker is a quarterly publication magazine covering issues relating to independent film. The magazine was founded in 1992 by Karol Martesko-Fenster, Scott Macaulay and Holly Willis...
.
In 2009, Chun received the Puma Emerging Filmmaker Award at the 2009 Hawaii International Film Festival and the George C. Lin Emerging Filmmaker Award at the DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival
DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival
Asian Pacific American Film, Inc., a nonprofit, tax-exempt charity under 501 of the Internal Revenue Code, produces the annual DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival in the capital of the United States, Washington, DC...
.
During Comic-Con 2010 in San Diego, it was announced that Will Eisner
Will Eisner
William Erwin "Will" Eisner was an American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. He is considered one of the most important contributors to the development of the medium and is known for the cartooning studio he founded; for his highly influential series The Spirit; for his use of comics as an...
's groundbreaking graphic novel A Contract With God
A Contract with God
A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories is a graphic novel by Will Eisner that takes the form of several stories on a theme. Published by Baronet Books in October 1978 in simultaneous hardcover and trade paperback editions — the former limited to a signed-and-numbered print-run of 1,500 —...
will be adapted into a feature film, with Chun directing one of the story's four chapters.
External links
- Silver Sling official website
- Children of Invention official website
- Windowbreaker official website
- Children of Invention, opinion article, ArtsEditor.com