BIOGRAPHY
Lin Que Ayoung is an award-winning queer writer/director/producer who started her career as a Hip Hop Performer and Lyricist. As time progressed, misogyny and homophobia began to saturate the genre. Being in front of the camera only exacerbated the pressures of fitting into a predetermined box of stereotypes. After three major record deals, she decided to go back to school with the hope of transforming her verbal poetry into visual lyricism.
Upon obtaining an MFA from NYU’s Graduate Film Program, Lin Que’s a two-time winner of the BAFTA-NY Scholarship, the winner of the 2018 New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT) Scholarship, and the recipient of NYU’s 2018 First Run Film Festival Craft Award for the Directing of her film, The Dreamer aka La Soñadora. The Dreamer was Lin Que’s 2nd year film at Tisch. It was also an Official Selection to HBO's 2019 New York Latino Film Festival. Before starting her 3rd year at NYU, she wrote her first feature-length script, Flesh , which was selected for the 2nd round of consideration for the 2019 Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program Development Track. Her 3rd year film, Nowhere , was exclusively distributed by Full Spectrum Features’ Our Right to Gaze: Black Film Identities Collection.
Lin Que's thesis film, Cracked , which won The Spike Lee Production Fund Grant, is based on true events that occurred to her when she was a child. At NYU's 2021 First Run Film Festival, Cracked won the 2nd Prize King Wasserman Award for Best Graduate Film. There, it also won Craft Awards for Cinematography and Acting. Cracked had its World Premiere at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and has been officially selected to compete at other prestigious film festivals including American Black Film Festival HBO Short Film Competition, Chicago International Film Festival, LA Shorts International Film Festival, HollyShorts Film Festival, and more.
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
LA SOÑADORA / THE DREAMER

After her transgender sister's suicide, a devout Catholic Latina seeks out a Santeria priest in hopes of stopping her nightmares from seeping into her waking life.
CAST
Puro
Miguel
Lito
Mami
Mauricio Bustamante
Melvin Vazquez
Bryce Zaslaw-Altamirano
Edna Lee Figueroa
CREW
Director of Photography
Associate Producer
1st Assistant Director
2nd Assistant Director
1st Assistant Camera
2nd Assistant Camera
Gaffer
Key Grip
Sound Mixer
Boom Operator
Production Designer
Costume Designer
Editor
Hair/Makeup Artist/SFX MUA
Alejandro Miyashiro
Kristian King
Kevin Wilson Jr.
Shawn Wu
Jasmine Chang
Zhaohan Dong
Joe Cabrera
Olumuyiwa A. Baker
Chenyi Zhuge
Evan Karg
Maryam Khosravi
Desira Pesta
Lin Que Ayoung
Simona Talento
NOWHERE

Esther, a middle-aged Latina, flees her controlling husband for a night of unadulterated freedom.
CAST
Angel
Lennon
Kate
Lisa
Kiki
Todd
Master
Slaveboy
Tara
Melissa
Danté
Geranne
Randy
Carlos Dengler
Atandwa Kani
Fikile Mthwalo
Emily Featherman
Fleece
Francisco Cardozo
Andy Jean
Paul Head
Lizzie Fox
Mary Glen Fredrick
Danté Crichlow
Geranne Dabouze
Robert Fetik
CREW
Director of Photography
Steadicam Operator
Associate Producer
1st Assistant Director
Script Supervisor
1st Assistant Camera
2nd Assistant Camera
Gaffer
Key Grip
Sound Mixer
Boom Operator
Production Designer
Costume Designer
Editors
Hair/Makeup Artist/SFX MUA
Prashanth Kamalakanthan
Calvin Falk
Rachel Gordon
Sontenish Myers
Shawn Wu
Alexandria Wallace
Kirsten Riccardi
Rashad Frett
Tukei Muhumuza
Swetha Regunathan
Adity Mody
Christelle Matou
Aaron Crosby
Lin Que Ayoung
Adity Mody
Steven Brickhouse
Simona Talento
ZITA, PLEASE!

Zita, 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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