Tze Chun | Writer-Director

Tze (pronounced "Z") Chun is a Chinese American filmmaker working out of New York City. He was born in Chicago and raised outside of Boston, and received his bachelor's degree in film studies at Columbia University. Tze's debut feature CHILDREN OF INVENTION premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, played over 50 festivals, and won 17 festival awards. It was released theatrically, on DVD and VOD in 2010, and the New York Times called it "a fine feature debut." In 2007, Chun was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film" for his award-winning short film WINDOWBREAKER, an official selection of Sundance and over 30 other international festivals. That same year, Chun was selected to participate in Tribeca Film Festival's All Access Program with his feature ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION and also served as a staff writer on ABC's CASHMERE MAFIA. He is currently reteaming with CHILDREN OF INVENTION producer Mynette Louie on several feature projects, including EYE OF WINTER, a thriller, and YOU'RE A BIG GIRL NOW, a selection of IFP's No Borders Co-Production Market and the Sundance Creative Producing Lab.

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Mynette Louie | Producer

A New York-based independent film producer, Mynette produced Marshall Lewy's CALIFORNIA SOLO starring Robert Carlyle (Sundance '12) and Tze Chun’s CHILDREN OF INVENTION (Sundance '09, 17 fest awards). She co-produced Andrew Bujalski’s MUTUAL APPRECIATION (Top 10 films of 2006--EW, Village Voice, Film Comment, Artforum, etc.), and is currently in post-production, pre-production, and development on several narrative feature projects. Louie was a fellow of the 2008 Rotterdam Lab, 2009 Sundance Creative Producing Lab, and 2010 Berlinale Talent Campus. She is on the Program Advisory Board of the IFP and the Selection Advisory Committee of the Sundance Labs, was named by Ted Hope as one of "21 Brave Thinkers Of Truly Free Film," and frequently serves as a mentor and panelist for organizations such as IFP, Film Independent, Tribeca Film Institute, and indieWIRE. Mynette previously worked at the Hawaii Film Office, where she authored the state's production tax credit, and in business development and marketing at SportsIllustrated.com, Jupiter Research, and Time Magazine. A native New Yorker, Mynette graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University, where she studied Chinese literature and film.