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Tze Chun
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Tze Chun

American filmmaker and comic book publisher

Tze Chun (born Tze-ngo Chun Chinese: 陳子翱) is an American film and TV producer, director, writer, painter, and comic book publisher. He was born in Chicago and raised outside of Boston, and graduated from Milton Academy in 1998.2

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Born Mar 20, 1980.1

About

He received his bachelor's degree in film studies at Columbia University.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedMilton Academy3
  • Date not recordedColumbia University School of the Arts3
  • Date not recordedColumbia University3

Career

Occupation: screenwriter, director, film director.5

Television work and writing

Cashmere Mafia

Chun was also one of the staff writers for the ABC television series Cashmere Mafia, starring Lucy Liu. Chun was hired for the show based on his and writing partner Mike Weiss' original pilot, Getting in Good, a tongue-in-cheek drama set in the highly competitive world of Manhattan private school admissions. Chun also recently sold a spec pilot to The CW that Dan Jinks is currently producing.

Once Upon a Time

Chun was a staff writer for the ABC television series Once Upon a Time. He wrote, alongside Scott Nimerfro, episodes 11 "Shattered Sight" and 17 "Heart of Gold" of the fourth season, and episodes 6 "The Bear and the Bow" (with Andrew Chambliss), 10 "Broken Heart" and 16 "Our Decay" (both with Diana Hogan) for season five.

Gotham

Chun was the executive story editor for season three of the Fox television series Gotham, and wrote episodes 8 "Blood Rush" and 18 "Light the Wick".

Chun was the co-producer/writer for season four of Gotham, and wrote episodes 5 "The Blade's Path", 13 "A Beautiful Darkness" and 21 "One Bad Day".

Chun was the supervising producer/writer for season five of Gotham, and wrote three episodes: "Penguin, Our Hero", "Ace Chemicals" and "They Did What?".

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Little America

Chun was the director/writer for the sixth episode of season one, "The Grand Prize Expo Winners", of Apple TV+'s Little America, an American anthology television series.

Gremlins

Chun is an executive producer and writer for the animated prequel series adaption of Gremlins on Max.

I'm a Virgo

Chun is an executive producer and co-showrunner of Boots Riley’s Amazon series I'm a Virgo starring Moonlight's Jharrel Jerome. Riley wrote and directed the series. Chun serves as executive producer along with Michael Ellenberg and Jerome.

Comic work

Chun is a co-founder and publisher for TKO Studios, which was launched Dec 2018. George Gustines of The New York Times wrote that TKO Studios is "A New Comics Publisher Aims to Shake Things Up." Graeme McMillan of The Hollywood Reporter reported that "TKO Studios Plans to Change How Readers Buy Comics."

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Personal life

  • BornMar 20, 1980, Chicago6
  • CitizenshipUnited States7

Children of Invention

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 eight Grand Jury or Best Narrative Feature prize including "Best Narrative Feature" at the Newport International Film Festival, the Independent Film Festival Boston, the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (where the cast won a Special Jury Prize in New Talent to Watch in Acting), the San Diego Asian Film Festival, and the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival, as well as "Emerging Filmmaker Awards" from the Hawaii International Film Festival and the DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival. The film was also released theatrically in eight cities, on DVD, and on VOD in 2010.

The film was also praised by critics, with Manohla Dargis of The New York Times saying that the film was a "fine feature debut...while the politics are there, you might be too busy choking back tears to notice" and the Los Angeles Times also called it "wonderful...absorbing, deftly played", Variety called it "urgent, artful...austerely poetic" and USA Today's Claudia Puig said, "I loved this movie. I can't remember when I have loved a movie quite as much as this one."

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