Randolph native Tze Chun, director of the Independent Film Festival of Boston's grand jury prize winner "Children of Invention," will unveil his locally shot flick at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge beginning Friday, Feb. 26 until Thursday, March 4.In "Children of Invention," two young children living outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother (played by Cindy Cheung from "Lady in the Water") gets embroiled in a pyramid scheme and disappears.
The film is also loosely based on Chun’s own childhood in Boston’s suburbs. “When I was little, my sister and I followed my mother to countless pyramid seminars," says Chun. "The film is a personal story about the world I grew up in--a subculture of immigrant and working class Americans trying to get-rich-quick in order to get themselves out of a financial hole. I didn't foresee the current financial crisis. But with the economy the way it is now, it seems like everyone's living through some version of what the family in the film goes through.”
The Brooklyn-based director, who shot the eviction scene from "Children of Invention" at his childhood home in Randolph and includes several Boston-area exteriors in the film including Downtown Crossing and the Red Line, tells Loaded Gun Boston that he hopes his film will inspire up-and-coming filmmakers to shoot locally.
"Boston is a very cinematic city, and it's a shame that more films don't shoot there," he says.
Chun continues, "We hope that with the success of this film, more homegrown filmmakers will stay in Boston to make their features, and more filmmakers from other parts of the country will consider setting their stories here."
Both Chun and producer Mynette Louie will be in attendance at the evening screenings on Friday, Feb. 26 and Saturday, Feb. 27.
Click here for a schedule and to purchase tickets. And, click here for Chun's extended interview with Loaded Gun Boston.
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