Quyên Nguyen-Le (they/them) is a 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, public libraries, and community spaces worldwide. A eulogy to their mother's nail salon that permanently closed during COVID pandemic, In Living Memory (2022) is currently streaming on PBS as an episode of WORLD Channel's daytime emmy nominated series Asian American Stories of Resilience and Beyond. Along with Tad Nakamura, Quyên is currently directing Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement, a feature documentary about the artistic life of Nobuko Miyamoto. Recently, Quyên was also 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. 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. Outside of filmmaking, Quyên is a "legal guardian" of two. You can reach them @smellydurianface on instagram. |
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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
RADIO/ PODCASTS
Queering the Air, 3CR, Melbourne Australia
Asian Voices Radio Podcast
LGBT & Viet Identities In Cinema, My Vietnam Podcast
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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
RADIO/ PODCASTS
Queering the Air, 3CR, Melbourne Australia
Asian Voices Radio Podcast
LGBT & Viet Identities In Cinema, My Vietnam Podcast
SCHOLARLY MENTIONS