Jun Falkenstein

Cast · Director · Writer

Born

May 7, 1969 · Hawaii, USA

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.