QUILL LABYRINTH | Sam Tung

HBO Miniseries, Santa Monica, CA Jun – Aug 2009

Intern for Kary Antholis, President of Miniseries; assisted projects in active development including The Pacific and Undaunted Courage, responsible for script coverage, rolling calls, maintaining script library, and other office and administrative duties.

Bibli’s Bookshelf, Philadelphia, PA June – Aug 2007

Illustration intern responsible for creating approximately 150 full-color illustrations over an 8-week period; built and uploaded web pages accompanying each illustration.

McGraw-Hill Higher Education, St. Louis, MO Jun – Aug 2005, 2006

Summer intern responsible for data entry and database cleanup, phone systems and other sales and administrative office duties.

RECENT PROJECTS

Lobster Boy, Film 2010

Writer, Co-Director, Co-Producer; 3 episode comedy web series about a young man with lobster claws for hands looking for love and learning that his “disability” may in fact be his greatest asset.

Chick Magnet, Film 2009

Writer, Director and Producer; 20-minute comedy film about a young man who comes into possession of a magical tube of Chapstick that makes women fall in love with him, inadvertently preventing him from obtaining the girl he desires.  Viewable at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86in60ykOb0

Magnus Menthu, Graphic Novel 2009

Writer and Illustrator; 60-page action/adventure comic done through a Surdna Undergraduate Research fellowship under the mentorship of writer Anthony Walton.  In it, a former mercenary is unwittingly hired to transport the final piece of a doomsday device, and begins to discover that he and his enemies may be the modern incarnations of pre-Christian gods.

Lights Out, Animation 2008

Co-writer, concept and story artist for this award-winning, two-minute computer animated short.  A man’s neighbor’s noisy television set keeps him from sleeping because of his sound-activated light switch. Viewable at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk0brY9Uq3I

Bowdoin Fencing        2006-2009

Founded, coached, managed and competed on a national level team.

OTHER SKILLS

Creative: Formal and self-taught education in writing for visual media, Formal and self-taught education in drawing, illustration, animation, and film-making, Classically and jazz-trained flautist

Technical: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut Pro, Final Draft, Microsoft Office, FileMaker Pro, Internet, Phone systems, Beginning Java, Beginning HTML

Language: Familiar Spanish