Jul 7, 2009
Tze (pronounced "Z") Chun is a filmmaker working out
of NYC and LA. He was born in Chicago and raised outside of Boston,
and received his bachelor's degree in film studies at Columbia University.
As a painter and visual artist, Tze has been represented at
CVZ
Contemporary gallery in Soho, and has commissioned portraits in
private residences in New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia,
Boston, and New Orleans.
Tze
also painted the original artwork for the Academy-Award nominated
Half
Nelson as well as the children's book drawings used in the
film.
Tze's short film Windowbreaker, made for $600, was selected to play at
mant high-profile film festivals including Sundance. A
feature length version of the film Children of Invention has also
screened at Sundance and has won awards at film festivals
worldwide. It is about two young children living outside
Boston that are left to fend for themselves when their mother gets
embroiled in a pyramid scheme and disappears.
Tze has been named one of Filmmaker
Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film." He is
working on a number of projects including, You're A Big Girl Now, a
film about his mother's childhood growing up in a Singaporean
brothel, based on two years of research and interviews.