Children of Invention (2009)

Editor's Note Two years after director Tze Chun?s short film "Windowbreaker" played at Sundance, this full-length feature based on the same film received praise at the festival in 2009. CHILDREN OF INVENTION begins with the eviction of Elaine Cheng (Cindy Cheung) and her two children (Michael Chen and Crystal Chiu) from their home, forcing them to squat in an unfinished apartment complex. Elaine attempts to support her family on a number of jobs, but her work at a pyramid scheme endangers her and leaves her children alone. Now Raymond must take care of his younger sister, Tina, with no idea when their mother will return.

	Cindy Cheung
	Michael Chen
	Crystal Chiu
	Frank Pando
	Kieran Campion
	Jackson Ning
	Remmi Franklin
	Yan Xi
	Tze Chun - Screenwriter
	Mynette Louie - Producer
	Trevor Sagan - Producer
	Chris Teague - Director of Photography
	T. Griffin - Composer
	Tze Chun - Director

Variety
"Urgent, artful and even austerely poetic....Tze uses the children to make an eloquent and profound point about kids for whom life has become a crap shoot." 02/22/2010

New York Times
"[A] modestly scaled, quietly effective independent movie about a struggling single mother and her two children." 03/12/2010