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Lin Que Ayoung

  • Writer
  • Director
  • Producer
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Lin Que Ayoung at HollyShorts 2021
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.
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    • Awards
      • 8 wins & 19 nominations total

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    Tatum Marilyn Hall in Cracked (2021)
    Cracked
    8.2
    Short
    • Writer
    • 2021
    Lin Que Ayoung, Marjay Smith, Nathaniel Blake Johnson, Kara F. Green, Katasha Acosta, and Brennie Tellu in B-Sides (2021)
    B-Sides
    TV Series
    • Director
    The Dreamer (2017)
    The Dreamer
    Short
    • Writer
    • 2017
    Denzel Washington in He Got Game (1998)
    He Got Game
    6.9
    • 'I Love You' Leech(as a different name)
    • 1998

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    Writer



    • Ricky (2025)
      Ricky
      7.4
      • co-writer
      • 2025
    • Our Right to Gaze: Black Film Identities (2021)
      Our Right to Gaze: Black Film Identities
      • Writer
      • 2021
    • Tatum Marilyn Hall in Cracked (2021)
      Cracked
      8.2
      Short
      • Writer
      • 2021
    • Fikile Mthwalo and Atandwa Kani in Nowhere (2019)
      Nowhere
      Short
      • writer
      • 2019
    • The Dreamer (2017)
      The Dreamer
      Short
      • writer
      • 2017

    Director



    • But Tomorrow
      • Director
      • Completed
      • Short



    • Obesidemic: Weight of the World
      • co-director
      • 2022
    • Our Right to Gaze: Black Film Identities (2021)
      Our Right to Gaze: Black Film Identities
      • Director
      • 2021
    • Lin Que Ayoung, Marjay Smith, Nathaniel Blake Johnson, Kara F. Green, Katasha Acosta, and Brennie Tellu in B-Sides (2021)
      B-Sides
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2021
    • Tatum Marilyn Hall in Cracked (2021)
      Cracked
      8.2
      Short
      • Director
      • 2021
    • Reese Antoinette in Liberty (2021)
      Liberty
      Short
      • Director
      • 2021
    • Fikile Mthwalo and Atandwa Kani in Nowhere (2019)
      Nowhere
      Short
      • Director
      • 2019
    • The Dreamer (2017)
      The Dreamer
      Short
      • Director
      • 2017

    Producer



    • Lin Que Ayoung, Marjay Smith, Nathaniel Blake Johnson, Kara F. Green, Katasha Acosta, and Brennie Tellu in B-Sides (2021)
      B-Sides
      TV Series
      • producer
      • 2021
    • Tatum Marilyn Hall in Cracked (2021)
      Cracked
      8.2
      Short
      • producer
      • 2021
    • Fikile Mthwalo and Atandwa Kani in Nowhere (2019)
      Nowhere
      Short
      • producer
      • 2019
    • The Dreamer (2017)
      The Dreamer
      Short
      • producer
      • 2017
    • Ian Cramer in Love Is Now Is Always (2016)
      Love Is Now Is Always
      Short
      • co-producer
      • 2016

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    SAG-AFTRA

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    • Official sites
      • 2021 Bentonville Film Festival, Led By Geena Davis, Announces Selections For Film Competition
      • BronzeLens 2021 Nominated Films Depict Unique, Compelling Stories That Entertain, Inform and Inspire
    • Alternative name
      • Isis
    • Height
      • 1.60 m
    • Other works
      Album (as Isis), "Rebel Soul," 4th & B'way/Island/PolyGram Records 444 030, 1990.

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    • Gender / Gender identity
      • Female
    • Pronouns
      • she/her
    • Sexual orientation
      • Queer
    • Race / Ethnicity
      • Asian, Black / African American

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    • Trivia
      In late 2009, Lin Que launched the We are the Girl Movement by releasing the single "Suga-Coated" featuring nine female emcees and singer Rachel Walker. All proceeds from the single go to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity.

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