Lin Que Ayoung
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Lin Que Ayoung is an award-winning writer/director/producer. Upon obtaining an MFA from NYU's Graduate Film program, Lin Que's thesis film, Cracked, which won The Spike Lee Production Grant, won a Top Honor King Wasserman Award for Best Graduate Film at NYU's First Run Film Festival. There, it also won Craft Awards for Acting and Cinematography. Cracked had its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and was selected to compete at the Chicago International Film Festival, LA Shorts, HollyShorts, and more. Cracked was also selected to be one of the five American Black Film Festival HBO Short Film Competition Finalists. Thus, garnering a license agreement with MAX.
Amongst her achievements with Cracked, she was chosen to be a fellow of the Gotham Marcie Bloom Fellowship Program, one of the ten Women Director's selected for Issa Rae's Project Greenlight, and a mentee for Ryan Murphy's HALF Initiative Director Shadowing Program where she received extensive mentorship from Steven Canals, the 3-time Emmy-nominated Co-creator, Showrunner, and Writer/Director of FX's groundbreaking drama series Pose.
Lin Que was also selected to be a Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow as a co-writer for the feature film Ricky. Ricky had its World Premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
Amongst her achievements with Cracked, she was chosen to be a fellow of the Gotham Marcie Bloom Fellowship Program, one of the ten Women Director's selected for Issa Rae's Project Greenlight, and a mentee for Ryan Murphy's HALF Initiative Director Shadowing Program where she received extensive mentorship from Steven Canals, the 3-time Emmy-nominated Co-creator, Showrunner, and Writer/Director of FX's groundbreaking drama series Pose.
Lin Que was also selected to be a Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow as a co-writer for the feature film Ricky. Ricky had its World Premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
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