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 debut feature Children Of Invention premiered at Sundance 2009, won 16 festival prizes, and was named one of Hammer to Nail’s “Top 13 Films of 2009.” The film was released theatrically in March 2010 to rave reviews in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Village Voice, Variety, USA Today, New York Post, Boston Globe, and Chicago Reader, among others. It will be released on VOD and DVD in summer 2010. Chun’s short film Windowbreaker screened at Sundance 2007 and earned him a spot on Filmmaker magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” He has also been a participant of Project:Involve and Tribeca All-Access. Along with his writing partner Mike Weiss, Chun served as a staff writer on Darren Star’s ABC’s Primetime Drama “Cashmere Mafia” starring Lucy Liu. Chun is currently working on multiple writing and directing projects, which include a thriller set on the U.S.-Canadian border, a supernatural drama, and an adaptation of Ed Lin’s New York crime novel This is a Bust. He recently completed a sci-fi short, Silver Sling, which premiered at SXSW 2010 as part of ITVS’s Futurestates series. Chun also works as a painter and visual artist, and painted the original artwork for the poster of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s Academy-Award nominated Half Nelson.