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- Jun Falkenstein is an award-winning, experienced animation director, writer, story artist and musician, and one of the rare working female animation directors in Hollywood. Her career has been extremely varied and extensive, encompassing theatrical, television and internet media.
She grew up in Laguna Beach, California, and received a B.A. from USC's prestigious School of Cinema-Television. She made her television directorial debut with the Hanna Barbera TV movie, Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights (1994), and her theatrical directorial debut with The Tigger Movie (2000). Since then, she has worked at many major studios in both television and theatrical animation, in development as well as production.
Some of the studios she has worked at include the Walt Disney Studios, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Sony, Mattel, Skydance, and Dreamworks. Most recently, she has been the supervising director/E.P./co-showrunner of the Apple TV+ series Stillwater (2020),' for which she won the Peabody Award and the Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Preschool Animated Program
Jun is also an accomplished musician and award-winning machinima filmmaker. She is also the co-founder of a music-based international non-profit organization 'Bread Over Bombs', which helps support food banks all over the world.- IMDb Mini Biography By: SFP
- As of this writing she was the first and youngest female director to solely direct an animated feature from a major motion picture studio (The Tigger Movie, 2000). She was 29 years old when the film was released.
- Was the director on the animated feature film Curious George (2006) for a year and a half during pre-production, until she parted ways with the studio over a script by William Goldman (which has since been thrown out).
- Has won several contests with her machinima films, including the Grand Prize at Blizzcon in both 2007 and 2008.
- Some of the bands Jun has played in around Los Angeles: Waste of Aces, Gavin, The Willies, The Spirals, Betty Dylan, East of Fairfax, Zen Boy and Karma Girl.
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