Quyên Nguyen-Le (they/them) is a daytime emmy nominated queer vietnamese filmmaker born to refugee parents where Chumash and Tongva lands meet (San Fernando Valley, Los Ángeles). Quyên's film work focuses on the ways histories are deeply felt in the quotidian everyday.
Regularly studied in university classrooms, their short films Nước (Water/Homeland) (2016) and Hoài (Ongoing, Memory) (2018) have also screened in film festivals, art galleries, libraries, and community spaces worldwide. Their short documentary The Morning Passing on El Cajón Boulevard (2019) opened the 20th San Diego Asian Film Festival as a part of the omnibus project The Paradise We Are Looking For. In Living Memory (2022) is available to stream on PBS as an episode of WORLD Channel's series Asian American Stories of Resilience and Beyond. Recently, Quyên was an Associate Producer for two Sundance award winning feature films - Julie Ha and Eugene Yi's Free Chol Soo Lee and Sing J. Lee's The Accidental Getaway Driver. Along with Tad Nakamura, Quyên is currently directing Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement, a feature documentary about the artistic life of Nobuko Miyamoto. Quyên completed B.A. degrees in Comparative Literature and Philosophy, Politics & Law from the University of Southern California's program in Santiago, Chile and holds a M.A. in Visual Studies from the University of California, Irvine. Quyên's work has been supported by Kartemquin Films, Points North Institute, Center for Asian American Media, the National Multicultural Alliance's Producer Lab, Visual Communications, and the California Arts Council. You can reach them @smellydurianface on instagram. |
"DON’T UNDERESTIMATE DIRECTOR AND WRITER QUYÊN NGUYEN-LE’S ABILITY TO PACK AN EMOTIONAL PUNCH WITHIN SECONDS OF THE FILM’S START..." - THE LONG BEACH POST
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Los Angeles Times
San Diego Union Tribune
Diacritics
Teen Vogue
Buzzfeed
Sahtu Press
Long Beach Post
Visual Communications
The Advocate
Vietcetera
PODCASTS
Queering the Air, 3CR, Melbourne Australia
Asian Voices Radio Podcast
LGBT & Viet Identities In Cinema, My Vietnam Podcast
SCHOLARLY MENTIONS