Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival 2009

Two young children living outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their mother gets embroiled in a pyramid scheme and disappears. One of Filmmaker Magazine’s "25 New Faces of Independent Film," writer-director Tze Chun makes his feature film debut with one of the most-awarded and best- reviewed films of the year. CHILDREN OF INVENTION is by turns humorous and heartbreaking, an "edge-of-your-seat family drama" (Spout) that’s both “powerfully moving and rigorously intelligent."(Boston Phoenix).

In the early 1980s, FBI Agent (James Van Der Beek) investigates the murder of an Asian professor at a small Midwestern college. His investigation follows the killers to Taiwan, where he learns the Professor's murder was not a random act, but a desperate move by a brutal government to silence political dissidents. Our Agent finds himself on a collision course with the F.B.I., the State Department, the Chinese Mafia, and the Nationalist Chinese Government - in a land where the truth is not what it seems and the only people he can trust, cannot be trusted at all. Inspired by actual events.