1. Tze Chun was born in Chicago and raised outside of Boston, and graduated from Milton Academy in 1998.
18 Facts About Tze Chun
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Tze Chun received his bachelor's degree in film studies at Columbia University.
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In 2012, Chun wrapped principal photography on Cold Comes the Night, which he co-wrote with Oz Perkins and Nick Simon.
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Tze Chun has directed numerous short films, including Windowbreaker, a selection of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
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Tze Chun was one of the staff writers for the ABC television series Cashmere Mafia, starring Lucy Liu.
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Tze 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.
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Tze Chun recently sold a spec pilot to The CW that Dan Jinks is currently producing.
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Tze Chun was a staff writer for the ABC television series Once Upon a Time.
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Tze 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".
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Tze Chun is an executive producer and writer for the animated prequel series adaption of Gremlins on Max.
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Tze Chun is an executive producer and co-showrunner of Boots Riley's Amazon series I'm a Virgo starring Moonlights Jharrel Jerome.
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Tze Chun serves as executive producer along with Michael Ellenberg and Jerome.
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Tze Chun is a co-founder and publisher for TKO Studios, which was launched Dec 2018.
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In 2007, Tze Chun was named one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" by Filmmaker.
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In 2009, Chun received the Puma Emerging Filmmaker Award at the 2009 Hawaii International Film Festival and the George C Lin Emerging Filmmaker Award at the DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival.
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Tze Chun received the "Visionary Award" from the Austin Asian American Film Festival.
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In 2011, Tze Chun was named as a United States Artists Fellow, specifically a USA Rockefeller fellow.
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Tze Chun has commissioned private portraits in cities such as New York and Los Angeles, is represented by CVZContemporary Gallery in SoHo, and painted the original artwork for the poster of the Oscar nominated feature film starring Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson directed by Ryan Fleck, as well as the children's book drawings that are used in the film.