Brian Jun (born October 21, 1979) is an American film director, screenwriter, film editor and producer. Jun has made two short films, Jimmy Brown and Researching Raymond Burke. Jun won the Sundance Channel Emerging Director Award in 2006 at the St. Louis Film Festival for his first feature film Steel City. The film also received a nomination for the grand prize jury award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006. As of June 2008, his second feature film The Thacker Case is in post-production. 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.