Quyên Nguyen-Le  (they/them) is a queer Vietnamese American filmmaker. Born in Los Ángeles to refugee parents, Quyên spent brief but formative years of their adulthood in Santiago de Chile and San Diego, and continues to call southern California home. Their short films Nước (Water/Homeland) (2016) and Hoài (Ongoing, Memory) (2018) have screened in film festivals, museums, art galleries, universities, libraries, and community spaces worldwide. Recently, Quyên's documentary The Morning Passing on El Cajón Boulevard (2019), a segment of a 4-part feature anthology, premiered as the Opening for the 20th San Diego Asian Film Festival.

In the past, Quyên was a recipient of the Emma L. Bowen Foundation's Fellowship at Focus Features/NBCUniversal (2011-2013), Visual Communications’ Armed with a Camera Fellowship (2016), the National Multicultural Alliance's documentary fellowship with the Center for Asian American Media (2018), and Points North Institute's North Star Fellowship (2019). Quyên holds B.A. in Comparative Literature and Philosophy, Politics & Law from the University of Southern California.

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"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

ELSEWHERE

SELECT ARTIST TALKS
Davidson College 3/2021
Pitzer College, 3/2020
Tufts University, 10/2018
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
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​PRESS
Los Angeles Times OC
San Diego Union Tribune
Diacritics
Teen Vogue
​Buzzfeed
Sahtu Press
Long Beach Post
Visual Communications
The Advocate
Dread Central

PODCASTS
Queering the Air, 3CR, Melbourne Australia
LGBT & Viet Identities In Cinema, My Vietnam Podcast

WRITING & PUBLICATIONS
HelloGiggles, Yahoo!, "Growing up in my mother's nail salon"

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