Kun Chang Réalisateur / Concepteur
Kun Chang is an award-winning director and art director. He has worked for, among others, National Geographic, Lego, Cirque du Soleil, Ubisoft, Star Wars, The Fifth Element and Sid Lee. As a director he has worked on videogames - his cinematics for Prince of Persia won a VES award in Hollywood, on documentaries - for BBC, National Geographic, CBC etc., and on fiction films - The award-winning short; The Rip-Off and several longer projects including The Mark (in development.) He is represented in Denmark, France, Russia, the US and Canada for commercials by 3 different companies. Kun Chang is a Danish citizen and a permanent resident of Canada who speaks fluent German, French, Danish, English and some Spanish.
Lately, most of his work is as a director, but when he isn’t working as a director he works as a designer, photographer, sculptor, illustrator, art director and concept artist - on films like Hellboy 2, Across the Universe etc. His work on the Video Game Osmos also won him an award and several nominations.
DIRECTING: FICTION
(Selected Credits)
James Cameron’s Avatar - The Game
2009 Ubisoft Entertainment
Director
Videogame, Mo-Cap, Animation
Blast from the Past, Catherine
2010 Facteur 7,
Director, Associate Producer
2x 15 min, Short Films, HD
The Rip-Off
2006 Facteur 7
Director, Associate Producer
10.30 min, Short film, 35mm
» Distinctions
Hulu Awards, 2009.
Nominee: Best Dramatic Short
Prix Prends ça court! 2007.
Winner: Global Magnetic Prize
Be Underground, 2007, NYC.
Winner: 3rd Place (Narrative)
ResFest 2006 Montreal.
Winner: Audience Choice Award.
And1, Cinematic Intro
2006 Ubisoft, Montreal
Director, Art-Director
45 sec, 3D animation
» Distinctions
15th Applied Arts Design & Advertising Awards, 2006.
Winner: Animation Single
Prince of Persia, The Two Thrones
2005 Ubisoft, Montreal
Director (Cinematics)
11 min, 3D Computer Animation.
» Distinctions
VES awards, 2006, L.A. Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones: Balcony Winner: Outstanding Pre-Rendered Visuals in a Video Game Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones: Battle Nominated Outstanding Pre-Rendered Visuals in a Video Game
G.A.N.G. Awards, 2006. Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones: Battle Nominated: Best cinematic /cut-scene audio
DIRECTING: DOCUMENTARIES
(Selected Credits)
Bob and the Gypsy King
2010 Cirrus, Director/Writer, 52min, (Shooting)
National Geographic Channel
Short Infinity
2003 Glacialis and NFB
Director, Writer & Researcher
63 min., Super 16mm film
National Film Board of Canada, CBC, SRC,
Canal D, RDI
» Distinctions
Gémaux, 2005.
Nominated: Best Director, Best Cinematography
Gemini, 2004.
Nominated: Best direction in a Documentary Program, Best Photography, Best Picture
Editing, Best Original Music, The Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary
Program
Hot Docs, 2004.
Honorable Mention: Best Direction
Touch – The Forgotten Sense
2001 Max Films
Director, Writer & Researcher
52 min., Super 16mm film
Nat.
Geographic Channel Worldwide, CBC – The Nature of Things, SRC, TV5, RDI, Canal D
» Distinctions
TECH film, 2003.
Winner: Best documentary
MIF Science Trophy 2003.
Nominated: Best Science Program
Gémaux, 2002.
Nominated: Best Documentary (Le Premier Sens)
Gemini, 2002.
Nominated: Best Science Documentary, Best Cinematography
Canada’s Golden Sheaf Awards, 2001.
Nominated: Best documentary at Canada’s Golden
Sheaf Awards
Téléscience Film Festival 2001.
Winner: Best Francophone documentary, all
categories (Le Premier Sens)
Seavitamins
1998 Woodfilm
Director, Writer & Researcher
10 min.,16 mm film
BBC2 – 10x10 series
DIRECTING: COMMERCIALS
(Selected Credits)
Currently represented in Quebec by 6ix Degrés, In Russia, USA and the rest of Canada by Spy Films and in Denmark by Agentzoo.
ART DIRECTION/PROD. DESIGN
(Selected Credits)
OSMOS
2008-2009, Videogame, Art Director
» Distinctions
IGN
Winner : Editors Choice Award
11th Annual Independent Games Festival, 2009.
Winner: D2D Vision Award
Nominated: Excellence
in Design, Seamus McNally Grand Prize
EXPO 2010, Shanghai,
Canadian Pavillion
2008, Cirque du Soleil, Art Direction
Space Adventure
2008 Sid Lee, Cirque du Soleil Lifestyle
Direction, Concept, Art Direction
Across the Universe
2006 Revolution Films/FX Cartel
Art Director (VFX)
Director: Julie Taymor
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
2004 Ubisoft
Art Director (Cinematics)
LEGO
1998-2001
Various projects. Including Spybotics, Bionicle, STAR WARS: Droid Developer Kit,
CYBERMASTER, SUPERCAR
Art Direction/Interactive Designer
HC Andersen’s Shadow
1995-1996 Zentropa
Production Designer (Feature Animation)
CONCEPTUAL ART
(Selected Credits)
Hellboy 2 - The Golden Army
2007 Ghost Visual Effects (Denmark)
Concept Artist
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
1997 Working Title Films, London
Concept Artist
Director: Peter Hewitt
STAR WARS, The Phantom Menace
1996-97 Lucasfilm/ Jak, London
Concept Artist
Director: George Lucas
The Fifth Element
1995 Gaumont/Zaltman Films, London
Junior Illustrator
Director: Luc Besson
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
The Art of opening credits
INIS (Institut national de L’image et du son)
Montreal, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,
2x3hrs
Drawing/Storyboarding
Private Classes 2008 – ongoing
1996 Wimbledon School of Art
Guest teacher
1995 Royal College of Art, Film Dept
Guest teacher
JURY MEMBER
Prix Gémeaux 2002, 2003
Grafika, 2002
PUBLIC SPEAKING
NY Academy of Sciences
2008 Nov 3.
“Hooked on a feeling
» Other distinctions
CTV Banff Fellowship, 2001.
Winner
Alan Lane, Penguin Books prize for the best dissertation at the Royal College of Art, 1995.
Winner
The Joe Farley Award for Production Design, 1994.
Winner
CineEurope Award, 1994.
Winner
Society of Illustrators in New York, 1993.
Nominated for the 1993 Matsuzaki Calendar
Canada Arts Council, Grant for Media Artists, 2007
Spira Film Production Grant, 2007
Promart Travel Grant, Sodec Travel Grant 2007