Directing

Quyên Nguyen-Le

Known for

Directing

Credits

15 titles

Quyên Nguyen-Le is a queer vietnamese filmmaker born in los angeles, california

Known for

Sky Sharks poster
4.9

A team of Arctic geologists stumble across an abandoned laboratory in which the Nazis developed an incredible and brutal secret weapon during the final months of WW2. Deep in the ice, they accidentally awake a deadly army of flying zombie sharks ridden by genetically mutated, undead super-humans, who are unleashed into the skies, wreaking their bloodthirsty revenge on any aircraft that takes to the air. An elite task force is assembled to take on this deadly threat and stop the Sky Sharks from conquering the air, but as time runs out, the task force realises they will have to fight fire with fire, and the stage is set for the greatest flying super-mutant zombie shark air battle the world has ever seen....

Sky Sharks

2020

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song In Movement poster
NR

Chronicles the extraordinary journey of the legendary Nobuko Miyamoto – a dancer, singer, and activist driven by a lifelong passion for social justice and community engagement.

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song In Movement

2024

The Labyrinth poster
7.6

A collection of original shorts exploring the unknown, the unexplained, and the unimaginable.

The Labyrinth

2016

Nước (Water/Homeland) poster
1.0

About the relationship between a queer Vietnamese-American teen and their Vietnamese refugee mother.

Nước (Water/Homeland)

2016

Between Us poster
NR

Between Us follows the multilayered stories of LGBTQIA+ Khmer and Vietnamese cultural workers in southern California as they contemplate the in-betweenness of belonging, healing, and carving out spaces of their own.

Between Us

2026

No artwork available
NR

Muoz-Doic Mixtape (pronounced: moo-ah thoy) is an offering of intergenerational storytelling from the Iu Mien community of Portland, Oregon: a brief glimpse into the collective work of culture-keeping in the face of historical displacement. Dedicated to the loving memory of Cayle Tern (1977-2026), who showed us that collective power is built in the everyday.

Muoz-doic Mixtape

2025

Film credits

Behind the camera

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song In Movement poster
NR

Chronicles the extraordinary journey of the legendary Nobuko Miyamoto – a dancer, singer, and activist driven by a lifelong passion for social justice and community engagement.

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song In Movement

2024

The Labyrinth poster
7.6

A collection of original shorts exploring the unknown, the unexplained, and the unimaginable.

The Labyrinth

2016

Nước (Water/Homeland) poster
1.0

About the relationship between a queer Vietnamese-American teen and their Vietnamese refugee mother.

Nước (Water/Homeland)

2016

Between Us poster
NR

Between Us follows the multilayered stories of LGBTQIA+ Khmer and Vietnamese cultural workers in southern California as they contemplate the in-betweenness of belonging, healing, and carving out spaces of their own.

Between Us

2026

Between Us poster
NR

Between Us follows the multilayered stories of LGBTQIA+ Khmer and Vietnamese cultural workers in southern California as they contemplate the in-betweenness of belonging, healing, and carving out spaces of their own.

Between Us

2026

No artwork available
NR

Muoz-Doic Mixtape (pronounced: moo-ah thoy) is an offering of intergenerational storytelling from the Iu Mien community of Portland, Oregon: a brief glimpse into the collective work of culture-keeping in the face of historical displacement. Dedicated to the loving memory of Cayle Tern (1977-2026), who showed us that collective power is built in the everyday.

Muoz-doic Mixtape

2025

No artwork available
NR

This documentary follows different refugee communities across the US, from Montagnard in North Carolina to the Mien in Oregon. Interviews with California Vietnamese mamas with queer kids, a collective of Southeast Asian vendors at FDR Park, canvassing youth, and Hmong farmers who trade crops with their neighbors, unearth untold unique refugee stories.

Southeast Asian American Journeys

2025

The Paradise We Are Looking For poster
NR

San Diego has been called many things – including a paradise. It’s also a refugee city, a cluster of neighborhoods, a militarized zone, a border town. And Asian American. This collection of four short documentaries, commissioned on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the San Diego Asian Film Festival, maps many such San Diego’s – across ethnicity, geography and history. At the same time, they hold on to some notion of paradise, however illusory: a haven from war, the dreams of an immigrant, precious teenage reminiscences, solace in the afterlife, and spaces for creative expression.

The Paradise We Are Looking For

2019

Queer Vietnameseness poster
NR

A documentary that follows the lives of three queer second generation Vietnamese Americans, navigating language, politics, and familial relationships - their stories add dimensions to Vietnamese diasporic experiences in community organizing, family, work in nail salons, and living in Little Saigon, Orange County, California: Ro Nghiem, a second generation Vietnamese, post-punk, gay lesbian boy who is currently attending school for graphic design, Natalie Newton, a Vietnamese American queer activist and strategic research analyst for social justice causes, and Shannon My Le, a claims adjuster for a workers’ compensation insurance company and is a part time entrepreneur.

Queer Vietnameseness

2016

Hoài (Ongoing, Memory) poster
NR

Centering on the story of a queer Vietnamese American woman, this short film explores the collapsing and intersecting realities of heartbreak: from romantic partnerships, families, and nation states.

Hoài (Ongoing, Memory)

2018

Hoài (Ongoing, Memory) poster
NR

Centering on the story of a queer Vietnamese American woman, this short film explores the collapsing and intersecting realities of heartbreak: from romantic partnerships, families, and nation states.

Hoài (Ongoing, Memory)

2018

No artwork available
NR

Cathy's Nails was shuttered during the pandemic. Weaving documentary, performance, installation, sculpture, and an awe-inspiring archive of home videos, this film presents a living practice of memory between Cathy's Nails' intrepid entrepreneur, her child, and their chosen family.

In Living Memory

2014

No artwork available
NR

The Morning Passing on El Cajón Boulevard follows Julie - a young and ambitious second generation Vietnamese American funeral director working in City Heights, known as the refugee neighborhood of San Diego, California. Julie is used to managing funerals every week, but after the unexpected passing of her own father, Julie seeks help from Do Thai Uyen, a San Diego legend who has managed funerals (and taxes) for southeast asian families since the 1980s. A brief and intimate glimpse into the ways refugee families mourn the loss of loved ones far from their homelands.

The Morning Passing on El Cajón Boulevard

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No artwork available
NR

A daughter explores her mother's Vietnamese immigration story in the wake of the closure of their nail salon.

In Living Memory

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