Los Angeles, CA, USA
$600 - $800 / Day
D.S. Chun (b.1983 San Cupertino, California, USA) is a director, writer, producer, editor, artist and teacher based in both Los Angeles and Quezon City. His last 12 years of work span the genres of commercial script, essay, review, fiction, poetry, mythology, screenplay, documentary, grant writing, and press releases. He has also engaged in curatorial, installation art, and event production practices throughout his career. The unifying motifs of his broad range of work include: the social impacts of belief, the hope in science as a civilizing force, the human saga of experimenting with power distributions in society, and love.
A short documentary about the collaboration between USAID and a host of Philippine NGO's to execute a biodiversity conservation plan through developing alternative livelihoods for poor coastal communities whose traditional ways of life have slowly been persecuted by corporate land privatization and overfishing.
A documentary feature about the darker possibilities of a society living in an era of Post-Truth. A woman is murdered randomly. The criminals are caught and convicted. Her ex-boyfriend goes online, accusing the judge, cops, and her family of conspiring to cause the murder for the Illuminati. His "proof" gains both a wide online following and a rabid defense of the facts from a mysterious group.
A short documentary survey of the mood in Los Angeles on the 4th of July, 2016. Produced on commission for the Echo Park Film Center 8mm Film Festival.
A documentary of an oral history the locals of Calayan tell of the American trained Filipino scientist Oliver Carlos who "discovered" a new bird species on their remote island. Giving subjects full authority over the narrative, it traces the nuances of the indigent people's collective mythmaking of the man and his importing a foreign body of scientific policies and domestic land use regulations.
Live acoustic performance by Jake Owen of his hit single Down to the Honky Tonk for Spotify's Hot Country Presents series.
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