Chun is currently an executive producer and writer for “Gremlins : Secrets of the Mogwai” animated series that is in development at WarnerMedia’s upcoming streaming service.

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.”

In 2012, Chun wrapped principal photography on Cold Comes the Night (formerly “Eye of Winter”), which he co-wrote with Oz Perkins and Nick Simon. The film stars Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), Alice Eve (Star Trek Into Darkness), Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus), Ursula Parker, and Leo Fitzpatrick. Frequent producer and collaborator Mynette Louie produced the film.

In 2011, Chun was named as a United States Artists (USA) Fellow, specifically a USA Rockefeller fellow.

During Comic-Con 2010 in San Diego, it was announced that Will Eisner’s groundbreaking graphic novel A Contract With God will be adapted into a feature film, with Chun directing one of the story’s four chapters.

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 8 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 8 cities, on DVD, and on VOD in 2010.

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. He also received the “Visionary Award” from the Austin Asian American Film Festival.

Chun has also directed numerous short films, including Windowbreaker, a selection of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Other short films directed by Chun include the World War II set Back to the Front (2006), Document (2006), about a writer whose girlfriend goes into a coma, Cold Feet, Wet Dreams, and the Kitchen Sink (2007), and a sci-fi short entitled Silver Sling (2010), set in a polarized economy of the near future where corporations offer subsidies to their high-ranking female employees to pay for chemically accelerated surrogate births.

In 2007, Chun was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine.

Tze Chun (born Tze-ngo Chun) is an American film and TV producer, director, writer, and comic book publisher. He was born in Chicago and raised outside of Boston, and graduated from Milton Academy in 1998. He received his bachelor’s degree in film studies at Columbia University.