Early Career
Since he was a child, Jun always had an interest in film and literature and, inspired by the work of Sam Shepard, Neil Simon and Samuel Beckett, he began to create his own characters and to write screenplays. Jun attended Webster University in St. Louis, where he learned the basics of filmmaking. Jun's first work was the short film Jimmy Brown, an hospital drama dealing with racial issues. The film was based around conversations between two characters, played by Dennis Lebby and Jun himself. A screening of the film at Los Angeles Shorts Film Festival led to the opportunity to make another short for Fox Searchlab; a program run by Fox Searchlight Pictures with the aim of nurturing up-and-coming talent. The result of this was Researching Raymond Burke, a short featuring John Heard. Jun's original plan was for this to be a tester to a feature film entitled In the World of Raymond Burke but he did not manage to acquire the capital to produce the film and the project was abandoned.
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