Quyên Nguyen-Le is a Vietnamese-American filmmaker born and raised in Los Angeles, whose work explores the intersections of queerness, memory, and cultural identity. Quyên's films have been shown in film festivals, universities, art galleries, community spaces, & fundraisers in across the U.S., Canada, Australia, U.K., and Vietnam. After a brief time at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Quyên instead completed degrees in Comparative Literature and Philosophy/Politics/Law at USC; then moved to Santiago de Chile to study Spanish with an emphasis in politics. As a student, they participated in the Emma L. Bowen Foundation's three year fellowship at Focus Features and directed a film for the feature anthology The Labyrinth.
Following the completion of their first feature documentary, Queer Vietnameseness, which follows the lives of three queer 2nd generation Vietnamese American womxn, Quyên wrote and directed Nước (Water/Homeland) with the support of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival's Armed-With-A-Camera fellowship. Quyên is currently serving as the Program Director for Project Fôtô at the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) in Orange County and participating in the National Minority Consortia's Documentary Fellowship with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM).
Following the completion of their first feature documentary, Queer Vietnameseness, which follows the lives of three queer 2nd generation Vietnamese American womxn, Quyên wrote and directed Nước (Water/Homeland) with the support of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival's Armed-With-A-Camera fellowship. Quyên is currently serving as the Program Director for Project Fôtô at the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) in Orange County and participating in the National Minority Consortia's Documentary Fellowship with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM).
"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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Email: QUYEN.CAT.NL[at]GMAIL.COM RECENT SCREENINGS + ARTIST TALKS
Dartmouth College, 5/2018 Stanford University, 4/2018 University of California, Riverside, 5/2017 University of California, San Diego, 5/2017 Harvard University, 4/2017 California State University, Los Angeles, 4/2017 Kansas State University, 4/2017 Claremont Colleges, 4/2017 Asian American Writer's Workshop, 12/2016 Chapman University, Orange, CA, 10/2016 PRESS Teen Vogue, Interview Buzzfeed, Interview Sahtu Press, Interview Long Beach Post, Nuoc Review Visual Communications, Interview The Advocate, Interview Dread Central, The Labyrinth Review PODCASTS Queering the Air, 3CR, Melbourne Australia The Less Talk, More Talk Show, Covina, CA Boba/Bubble Tea, Asian Americana, (Guest Barista) WRITING & PUBLICATIONS
HelloGiggles, Yahoo!, "Growing up in my mother's nail salon" Neon Tommy, "Remembering April 30, 1975" |