BIOGRAPHY
Lin Que Ayoung is an award-winning queer 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 HBO MAX.
Amongst her achievements with Cracked, Lin Que was chosen to be a fellow of the Gotham Marcie Bloom Fellowship Program, one of ten Women Director’s selected for Issa Rae’s Project Greenlight, a 2023 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow as a co-writer for the feature film Ricky.
Lin Que's films grapple with the tension between humanity’s beauty and its horror. She utilizes storytelling to cultivate her artistic boldness with the hope that her creative authenticity can touch and awaken the authenticity in others.
CRACKED
It's the end of the summer of 1985 in Queens, New York City. Toya, a feisty young girl, falls in love for the first time. After a series of disturbing events, Toya is compelled to face her traumatic past.
CAST
Poochy
Michael
Leddy
Keith
Theresa
Anita
Vicky
Sister Loretta
Junior
Paul
Ernest
Rita
Linda
Charles
Crackhead
Meliki Hurd
Dwayne Grant
Kizzmett Pringle
Paris Crayton III
Simone McCrear
Zonia Edward
Ange Musoni
Bonnie Schneider
Kamal Ani-Bello
Avondre Beverley
Zaydin Gordon
Destinee Mikayla Henry
Ka’Ress Pringle-Wishner
Felix Alexis
Mino Jones
CREW
Production Company
Production Fund Grantor
Director of Photography
Production Designer
Editors
Associate Producers
Line Producers
Costume Designer
Casting Directors
Assistant Director
Script Supervisor
1st Assistant Camera
2nd Assistant Camera/DIT
Sound Mixer/Boom Operator
Gaffer
Key Grip
Swing
1980s Era Consultant
Make-Up Artist/Hair Stylists
Stunt Coordinator
Location Scouts
Prop Master
Still Photographer
Production Assistants
Tutor/Child Advocate/ Nun V.O.
Illusionary Ends
Spike Lee
Lorena Duran
Christelle Matou
Lin Que Ayoung
Rashad Frett
Katasha Acosta
Jessie Wooten
Christelle Matou
Mahum Jamal
Kristian King
Rodrigo Munoz
Lin Que Ayoung
Katasha Acosta
Shawn Wu
Samantha Godfrey
Kayla Arend
Latifah Todd
Youmin Kang
Esteban Veras
Rashad Frett
Justin Hagerty
Kilima 'Koolout K' Loukaka
Fabiana Graziani
Stacey Stephenson
Steven Ayoung
Lin Que Ayoung
Jessie Wooten
Cole Swanson
Rashad Frett
Michael Allen Harris
Nicky Fraebel
Analise Flores
Emani Morales
Raquel Matos
Pamela Thompson
FLOW!
Flo, a thirty-something Latina, begrudgingly faces her demons with the hope of finding love.
CAST
Eva (Zita’s mom)
Trez
Carlos
Ama
Alician
Kate
Tiny
Yoli
Anastasia
Cassi
Shalisha
Ceasar
Mr. Don
Lorraine
Background Actors
Nina Ramirez
Tresoline Delva
Carlos Delblec
Marcela Onyango
Lindsay Brill
Sarah Skeist
Tegan Foye
Ariana Arce
Lauren Starky
MaKenzie Harden
Sarah Paul
Cesar Villavicencio
Fernando Lamberty
Lorraine Roque
Julianna Jordan
Aanyah Campbell
Hannah Brennan
Aryana Hickman
Jaslene Smith
Maya Smith
Kiara Samuel
Nylah Wilkins
Tatiana Concepcion
Symarrah Carbon
Larissa Gonzalez
Leilah Gonzalez
Jordee Brown
Nabilah Iddrisu
Zubaydah Bashir
Stacey Stephenson
CREW
Co-writer/Exec Producer
Director of Photography
Line Producer
Assistant Director
Assistant Camera
Gaffer/Assistant Camera
Sound Mixer/Boom Operator
1st Hair/Makeup
2nd Hair/Makeup
Production Assistant
Colorist
Post Sound Mixer
VFX Artist
Natalie Birriel
Noelia Muino Gonzalez
Tom Holden
Zubaydah Bashir
Leo Descristoforo
Dylan James
Youmin Kang
Deniz Hancioglu
Stacey Stephenson
Equasia Freeman
Elizabeth Hickey
Ivan Markovsky
Richard Cabrera
THE TRANSGENERATIONAL TRAUMA OF RACISM
This doc delves into the connective tissue between generations within the Black Community. It highlights our transgenerational response to the trauma of racism as we break free from the psychological, familial and social consequences of racial discrimination.
CAST
Zuri Chin
Jahh Hendricks
Almitra Gasper
A-mar Allah
Ansar Allah
Herself
Himself
Herself
Himself
Himself
CREW
Production Company
Director of Photography / Camera A
Director of Photography / Camera B
1st Assistant Director
2nd Assistant Director
1st Assistant Camera
Sound Mixer / Boom Operator
Illusionary Ends
Tatjana Krstevski
Rashad Frett
Reese Antoinette
Sam Godfrey
Tanakorn Krailassuwan
Zé Frías
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