Tze Chun
| Tze-ngo Chun | |
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 Tze Chun at 2009 Sundance (photo by Gabriela Herman) |
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| Born | Tze-ngo Chun March 20, 1980 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 2005–present |
Tze Chun (born Tze-ngo 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.[1]
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.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Filmmaker. Summer 2007.
- ^ A Contract With God: the movie. Eisnershpritz News Archive. July 2010.
- Further reading
- Children of Invention director Tze Chun: The Media Diet. Spout Blog. Dec 2008.
- Fellows Interview. Film Independent. Oct 2008.
- Staying Power of Tze Chun. NewEnglandFilm.com. Dec 2008.
[edit] External links
- Silver Sling official website
- Children of Invention official website
- Windowbreaker official website
- Tze Chun at the Internet Movie Database
- Children of Invention at the Internet Movie Database
- Silver Sling at the Internet Movie Database
- Cashmere Mafia at the Internet Movie Database
- Cashmere Mafia at TV.com
- Children of Invention, opinion article, ArtsEditor.com
