CREATIVE TEAM

TZE CHUN (陳子翺) | Writer-Director

Tze (pronounced "Z") Chun was born in Chicago and raised outside of Boston. He received his bachelor's degree in film studies at Columbia University, and was named the 2012 USA Rockefeller Fellow in Media. He was recently selected to participate in the Fox Writers Intensive.

Chun’s debut feature CHILDREN OF INVENTION premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and went on to become 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 for the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and for which Chun was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film." Chun’s follow-up feature, a crime thriller titled COLD COMES THE NIGHT, starring Alice Eve, Bryan Cranston, and Logan Marshall-Green was released by Sony/Goldwyn in 2014.

In television, Chun is currently a staff writer on ABC's primetime drama, ONCE UPON A TIME, and wrote for Darren Star's ABC's primetime drama, CASHMERE MAFIA, starring Lucy Liu. Chun sold a spec pilot to The CW for Dan Jinks to produce as well. 

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 painted the original artwork for the poster of Academy-Award nominated HALF NELSON as well as the children's book drawings used in the film.

MYNETTE LOUIE (雷敏妮) | Producer

Mynette is a New York-based independent film producer and president of Gamechanger Films, which finances features directed by women. She is the winner of the 2013 Independent Spirit Piaget Producers Award, given to "producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity, and vision required to produce quality independent films."

She produced Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz's LAND HO!, which premiered at Sundance 2014 and sold to Sony Pictures Classics; Marshall Lewy's CALIFORNIA SOLO starring Robert Carlyle, which premiered at Sundance 2012 and was distributed by Strand Releasing; P. Benoit's STONES IN THE SUN starring Edwidge Danticat, which premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival; and Tze Chun's COLD COMES THE NIGHT and critically acclaimed CHILDREN OF INVENTION, which premiered at Sundance 2009, played over 50 film festivals, won 17 festival awards, and was released theatrically and on DVD and VOD in 2010. 

Mynette also produced Doug Karr's ART MACHINE, starring Joseph Cross, Jessica Szohr, and Joey Lauren Adams, which premiered at Woodstock 2012 and was released by FilmBuff. She is the consulting producer on Olivia Silver's ARCADIA, starring John Hawkes, which won the Crystal Bear at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival, and was released by Film Movement. Louie also executive produced Ishai Setton's THE KITCHEN, starring Laura Prepon, Bryan Greenberg, and Dreama Walker, which premiered as the Closing Night Film at Gen Art 2012, and was released by Montery Media. She co-produced Andrew Bujalski's MUTUAL APPRECIATION, which premiered at SXSW and was named one of the top ten films of 2006 by Entertainment Weekly, Film Comment, the Village Voice, and Artforum, among others. 

Louie serves on advisory boards for the Sundance Institute, SXSW, IFP, and A3 Asian American Artists Foundation, and has been a consultant for international sales agent Visit Films.  She was a fellow of the Rotterdam Producers Lab, Sundance Creative Producing Lab, Berlinale Talent Campus, and Film Independent. Louie was named in Ted Hope's list of "21 Brave Thinkers Of Truly Free Film," and profiled in Crain's New York Business and Indiewire’s “Futures,” column and named one of Indiewire's "100 Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter."

Previously, Mynette served as Economic Development Specialist at the Hawaii Film Office, where she authored the state's refundable production tax credit legislation, 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 Time Magazine. 

A native New Yorker, Mynette graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University, where she studied Chinese film and literature.