Quyên Nguyen-Le  (they/them) is a queer and gender nonconforming Vietnamese-American filmmaker, whose narrative and documentary films have been shown in various film festivals, universities, art galleries, and community spaces internationally.

In the past, Quyên was a recipient of the Emma L. Bowen Foundation's Fellowship at Focus Features (2011-2013), Visual Communications’ Armed with a Camera Fellowship (2016) and the National Minority Consortia's documentary fellowship with the Center for Asian American Media (2018), as well as CAAM's inaugural Documentaries for Social Change grant. Recently, Quyên participated in the Points North Institute's North Star Fellowship. Quyên holds B.A. in Comparative Literature and Philosophy, Politics & Law from the University of Southern California.

Outside of filmmaking, Quyên has served as Program Director at the Vietnamese Association of Arts and Letters (VAALA)'s Project Fôtô, and a filmmaking mentor for students in InnerCity Filmmakers (Los Angeles), Youth in Motion (Orange County), and Reel Voices (San Diego) programs.

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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

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RECENT SCREENINGS + ARTIST TALKS
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
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
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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
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"

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