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| Directed by | Tze Chun |
| Produced by | Mynette Louie Trevor Sagan |
| Written by | Tze Chun |
| Starring | Cindy Cheung Michael Chen Crystal Chiu |
| Music by | T. Griffin |
| Cinematography | Chris Teague |
| Editing by | Anna Boden |
| Release date(s) | 2009 |
| Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country |  U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
Children of Invention is an independent film written and directed by Tze Chun. It premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, screened at over 40 film festivals, and won 15 festival awards.
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Two young children living in the Boston suburbs are left to fend for themselves when their mother gets entangled in a pyramid scheme and disappears. The film is loosely based on Tze Chun’s own childhood[1], as well as his Sundance 2007 short, Windowbreaker.
Though set in Boston, the film was shot primarily in and around New York City, with several days in Boston for exteriors.[2] The film premiered at Sundance just 10 months after the first draft of the script was completed.[3]
The film was very well-received by critics on the festival circuit, and won the following awards:
Tze Chun and the film's producer Mynette Louie were named in Ted Hope's list of 21 Great Free Thinkers of Indie Film for their hybrid DIY festival/DVD distribution strategy. The film will debut theatrically in Boston on February 26, 2010, and in New York and Los Angeles on March 12, 2010.
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