Tora Chung is a San Francisco-based writer and filmmaker. She is currently working with the Scary Cow Film Collective to produce short narrative films in the Bay Area. Concurrent to her recent stint in the wine business, she directed a YouTube commercial for and served as contributing writer to Anglotopia.net’s film blog, line editor for several novels, reader for Zoetrope: All-Story, juror for the San Francisco International Film Festival’s Golden Gate Awards and screener for the Mill Valley Film Festival. Her screenplays have been finalists for the Sundance Screenwriters’ Lab, the Page International Screenwriting Awards and Kodak’s Aperture Short Script Grant. Following several years in events and development at the San Francisco International, Mill Valley Film and Sundance Film Festivals, she produced several short films for LA 48 Hour Film Festival and worked for Columbia, Paramount, Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures as a producer’s assistant and production coordinator on such films as Pineapple Express, Superbad, Beowulf, Syrian, Superman Returns, Monster House, Spanglish and The Hulk. She attended Smith College and U.C. Berkeley, where she studied comparative literature and film theory.
Wasp-men From Mars
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Film (short)
by Scary Cow Film Collective
Producer
Joyus.com
(
Internet
Production Coordinator
One Good Egg
(
Film (short)
by Scary Cow Film Collective
Producer
Make It Go Away
(
Film (short)
by Scary Cow Film Collective
Producer
How Do We Get There?
(
Film (short)
by Scary Cow Film Collective
Producer
MyBabyTales.com commercial (YouTube)
(
Commercial
by MyBabyTales.com
Director
Pineapple Express
(
Film
by Columbia Pictures
Assistant to the Producer
Asian Arrow IV
(
Film (short)
by 48 Hour Film Festival, LA
Producer
Heinz Ketchup
(
Commercial
by (spec commercial)
Producer
Visa
(
Commercial
by 48 Hour Film Festival, LA (spec commercial)
Producer
Rodeo Girl
(
Film
by Rodeo Girl, LLC
Production Coordinator
Superbad
(
Film
by Columbia Pictures
Assistant to the Producer
Beowulf
(
Film
by ImageMovers
Exec. Asst. to Producer
Even Money
(
Film
by Bob Yari Productions
APOC
Superman Returns
(
Film
by Warner Bros.
APOC
Syriana
(
Film
by Warner Bros.
APOC
In the Land of Women
(
Film
by Warner Bros.
APOC
Spanglish
(
Film
by Columbia Pictures
Production Secretary
Monster House
(
Film
by ImageMovers
Production Secretary
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
(
Film
by Monsoon Pictures
Travel Coordinator
The Hulk
(
Film
by Universal Pictures
Post Production Assistant
Book of Rules
(
Film
by Book of Rules Productions
Line Producer
Twisted
(
Film
by Paramount Pictures
Assistant to the Exec. Producer
Audience Award, Scary Cow Film Festival, for 'One Good Egg' (short film)
(2014)
Finalist for Sundance Screenwriters’ Lab for 'Wanderlust' (feature script)
(2008)
Audience Award, 48 Hour Film Festival, LA for 'Asian Arrow IV' (short film)
(2007)
Finalist for Page Int’l Screenwriting Awards for 'Double Topping' (short script)
(2005)
Finalist for Kodak’s Short Script Grant for 'Double Topping' (short script)
(2005)
UC Berkeley