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Silver Sling

In the polarized economy of the near future, corporations offer incentives to their high-ranking female employees to pay for surrogate pregnancies and chemically accelerated births.

Series

FUTURESTATES

Premiere Date

March 5, 2010

Length

11 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production, Development

Tze Chun

Director

Tze Chun is a filmmaker working out of New York City and Los Angeles. He was born in Chicago and raised outside of Boston, and received his bachelor’s degree in film studies at Columbia University. Tze Chun’s debut feature Children of Invention premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and went on to be one of the best-reviewed and most-awarded films of the year, winning 15 film festival awards. In 2007, Chun was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” for his short film Windowbreaker, which screened at Sundance 2007 and more than 30 other international festivals. He is currently reteaming with producer Mynette Louie on his second feature, You’re a Big Girl Now.