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Biographies
Tze (pronounced
"Z") Chun is a
filmmaker
working out of
New York City
and Los Angeles.
He was born in
Chicago and
raised outside
of Boston, and
received his
bachelor's
degree in film
studies at
Columbia
University. His
feature film
debut
CHILDREN OF INVENTION,
premiered at the
2009 Sundance
Film Festival
and has won 15
film festival
awards.
Tze's short film
WINDOWBREAKER,
made for $600,
was selected to
play at the 2007
Sundance Film
Festival, as
well as over
thirty other
high-profile
international
festivals. It
won the audience
award at the
2006 New York
City Short Film
Festival and
best short film
at the 2007
Vietnamese
International
Film Festival.
That same year,
Tze was selected
to participate
in Tribeca Film
Festival’s All
Access Program
with his feature
ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION
and IFP’s No
Borders
International
Co-Production
Market with his
feature
YOU'RE A BIG GIRL NOW.
In the summer of
2007, Tze was
named one of
Filmmaker
Magazine's "25
New Faces of
Independent
Film."
Along with his
writing partner
Mike Weiss, Tze
served as a
staff writer on
Darren Star's
ABC's Primetime
Drama "Cashmere
Mafia," created
by Kevin Wade
and starring
Lucy Liu. The
pair were hired
for the show off
their original
pilot, "Getting
in Good," a
tongue-in-cheek
drama set in the
uber-competitive
world of
Manhattan
private school
admissions.
Tze is currently
working on
multiple writing
and directing
projects. His
sci-fi short
film
SILVER SLING
will premiere in
March 2010 as
part of
FUTURESTATES, a
new online
series being
launched by ITVS.
His feature
script
YOU'RE A BIG GIRL NOW
is based on the
true life story
of his mother,
an orphan who
was sold to
Singaporean
brothel and
narrowly escaped
a life of forced
prostitution.
Based on two
years of
research and
interviews, Tze
is reteaming
with
CHILDREN OF INVENTION producer
Mynette Louie to
develop the
film. The
project was
recently
selected for the
2009 Sundance
Creative
Producing
Fellowship.
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