Mira Peng

Directing

Mira Peng

Born 1987-12-22 · Hunan Province, China

Mira Peng is a writer, poet and filmmaker from Hunan, China. She started filmmaking in Beijing and is now based in New York City and Los Angeles. Her shorts have been selected by NewFest, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Sydney International Film Festival, Asian American International Film Festival, Queer East, and more. A graduate of New York University’s Graduate Film Program, Peng was selected for the Disney Filmmaker Launchpad, where she wrote and directed The Little Prince(ss), which was released on Disney+. Peng is also an Almanack Screenwriters fellow, a Lambda Literary Fellow, and a Tin House Fiction Workshop fellow.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Little Prince(ss) poster
7.1

When Gabriel, a 7-year-old Chinese kid who loves ballet, becomes friends with Rob, another Chinese kid from school, Rob’s dad gets suspicious about Gabriel's feminine behavior and decides to intervene.

The Little Prince(ss)

2021

The Little Prince(ss) poster
7.1

When Gabriel, a 7-year-old Chinese kid who loves ballet, becomes friends with Rob, another Chinese kid from school, Rob’s dad gets suspicious about Gabriel's feminine behavior and decides to intervene.

The Little Prince(ss)

2021

Melt poster
NR

When Little Jia is asked to read his essay about Women's Day out loud in class, he has to hide the truth that only his friend Dong knows.

Melt

2018

3 L Affairs poster
NR

A love story between 3 people who are named as Luc, Laurence, and Liz (the 3 L's). Luc is a young Chinese guy working in a foreign company in Beijing, who is secretly in love with his foreign boss Laurence. But later he finds that Laurence is very close to a girl Liz. Just when he decides to move on suddenly things change. Where is love going to lead these three people? The movie tells you in three chapters from each of three people’s angles to unveil the truth beneath love.

3 L Affairs

2011

My 17 Gay Friends poster
NR

“My 17 Gay Friends” is an experimental romantic comedy that explores the interconnected web of relationships in Beijing’s gay community that surrounds an unseen narrator. It also pokes fun at stereotypes and labels that often cut across the LGBT community such as femininity and masculinity in the gay community and how it affects our perceptions of gay people and categorizes people into distinct groups. This Chinese rom-com seeks to portray an optimistic, light-hearted side of gay life in urban modern cities in order to show that homosexuality need not always be associated with depression, suicide, and a life of tragedy.

My 17 Gay Friends

2014

Min Min and Claire poster
NR

Min Min keeps her best friend Claire's note from being delivered to a boy they both like and opens the note one night out of jealousy.

Min Min and Claire

2018