TZE CHUN (陳子翺) | Writer-Director
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.
Chun's debut feature CHILDREN OF INVENTION premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and went on to be one of the most-awarded and best-reviewed films of the year. It won 17 film festival awards, including 8 Grand Jury or Best Narrative Feature prizes. The film was released theatrically in March 2010 to rave reviews--Manohla Dargis of the New York Times said the film is "A fine feature debut...while the politics are there, you might be too busy choking back tears to notice"; Variety said it is "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."
The film was based on Chun's short film WINDOWBREAKER, which was selected to play at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and for which Chun was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film." Recently, Chun was named the 2012 USA Rockefeller Fellow in Media.
In television, Chun wrote for Darren Star's ABC Primetime Drama "Cashmere Mafia," created by Kevin Wade and starring Lucy Liu. He was hired for the show off his and writing partner Mike Weiss' original pilot, "Getting in Good," a tongue-in-cheek drama set in the uber-competitive world of Manhattan private school admissions.
Chun also works as a painter and visual artist. He is represented at CVZContemporary gallery in Soho, and has commissioned portraits in private residences in New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, and New Orleans. Chun also painted the original artwork for the poster of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's Academy-Award nominated HALF NELSON (THINKFilm) as well as the children's book drawings used in the film.
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MYNETTE LOUIE (雷敏妮) | Producer
A New York-based independent film producer, Mynette produced Tze Chun’s award-winning Sundance feature, CHILDREN OF INVENTION (Sundance 2009), Marshall Lewy's CALIFORNIA SOLO (Sundance 2012) starring Robert Carlyle, and P. Benoit's STONES IN THE SUN (Tribeca 2012) starring Haitian author Edwidge Danticat. She is also the consulting producer on Olivia Silver’s ARCADIA starring Oscar nominee John Hawkes, which won the Crystal Bear at the 2012 Berlinale Film Festival. She co-produced Andrew Bujalski’s critically acclaimed MUTUAL APPRECIATION, named one of the top ten films of 2006 by Entertainment Weekly, Film Comment, the Village Voice, Artforum, Greencine, and The Onion's AV Club, among others.
Currently, Mynette is in post-production on Doug Karr's ART MACHINE, starring Joseph Cross, Jessica Szohr, and Joey Lauren Adams. She is also the consulting producer on Ishai Setton's forthcoming film, THE KITCHEN, starring Laura Prepon, Dreama Walker, and Bryan Greenberg.
Mynette is developing several narrative features, including Tze Chun's crime thriller EYE OF WINTER, Eric Lin's death-industry thriller WHY WE PULL THE TRIGGER, Rory Kelly's psychological hiking drama THE END OF SOMETHING, and Tze Chun's historical drama YOU'RE A BIG GIRL NOW, with which she was selected for the 2009 Sundance Creative Producing Lab and Fellowship. Mynette was also a fellow of the 2008 Rotterdam Producers Lab and 2010 Berlinale Talent Campus.
Mynette is on the Program Advisory Board of IFP and the Selection Advisory Committee of the Sundance Labs. Along with Tze Chun, she was named in Ted Hope's list of "21 Brave Thinkers Of Truly Free Film" for their hybrid distribution strategy for CHILDREN OF INVENTION, and she was profiled in indieWIRE’s “Futures” column, which features notable emerging talent in independent film.
Previously, Mynette served as Economic Development Specialist at the Hawaii Film Office, where she authored the state's 15-20% refundable production tax credit, oversaw the $7.3 million renovation of the state-owned film studio, and developed programs to foster local independent filmmaking. She also worked in marketing and business development at SportsIllustrated.com, Jupiter Research, and TimeMagazine, and was a book critic for aMagazine: Inside Asian America.
A native New Yorker, Mynette graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University, where she studied Chinese film and literature.
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LORNA TEE | Executive Producer
Lorna Tee graduated with a B.Ed from University of Surrey. After graduation, she worked as a theatre practitioner, drama teacher, film producer and arts activist in Malaysia and Singapore. In 2005, she moved to Hong Kong and worked with Focus Films where she was the senior manager for marketing and distribution. Next, she joined Variety as Business Development Manager (Asia) and was responsible for the growth of new business in the region. After that, she was the General Manager of Irresistible Films, in charge of scouting for film projects and managing production and distribution. Currently, she is developing a slate of independent and big budget films from Asia and the USA.
She is also on the board of advisors for Cinemart (International Film Festival of Rotterdam), Jakarta International Film Festival, Asian Film Awards and Pusan’s Asian Film Market. Amongst her producing credits are THE BEAUTIFUL WASHING MACHINE, THE SHOE FAIRY, I’LL CALL YOU, RAIN DOGS, CRAZY STONE, LOVE STORY, BEFORE WE FALL IN LOVE AGAIN, MY MOTHER IS A BELLYDANCER, AT THE END OF DAYBREAK, MY DAUGHTER, and POSTCARDS FROM THE ZOO. She has also been a juror and panel speaker at festivals and markets including the Berlinale, Shanghai, Rotterdam, Barcelona Asian Film Festival, Jakarta, Asia Media Festival (Singapore), Hong Kong FILMART, Tokyo TIFFCOM, PIFF & PIFAN (S Korea), Udine Far East Film Festival, and more.
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