D.S. Chun is a Korean-American LA-based filmmaker who trained under directors Lumbera, Leyco, and Torres in the Philippines. The unifying motifs of his work include the societal impacts of belief, the hope in science as a civilizing force, power structures as species level perversions and love. He wrote and codirected the feature film Piding, a non-fiction hybrid documentary about the unexpected psychic consequences of the discovery of a new species of bird on the remote Philippine island of Calayan. It premiered at Cinema One Originals Film Festival in 2016. D.S. is a recipient of the Hubert Bals Script and Project Development Fund and the Japan Foundation Cultural Collaboration Grant. He recently participated in the PRISM Fellowship at True/False Film Fest in 2020. After co-founding the diasporic culture studio Rug and Vase with Mustafa Zeno in 2019, he has begun work on a feature doc on an undocumented immigrant family, a docuseries about the human experience of surviving the US military, and a journal for documentary directors of color.
He works as a director, editor, researcher, and organizer. He also leads the documentary team of The Future Left.
