About our filmmakers

Director: Threads | Producer: Threads, Teb Chaw (Land), The Market

Quyên Nguyễn-Lê is a queer vietnamese filmmaker born to boat refugee parents where Chumash and Tongva lands meet in Los Ángeles, California. Quyên's film work–spanning between documentary and scripted genres–focuses on the ways histories are deeply felt in the quotidian everyday.

Quyên’s debut feature, co-directed and produced with Tad Nakamura, Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement (2024), uses rare archival material to create a vivid portrait of iconic Asian American movement activist Nobuko Miyamoto’s decades-long artistic career. Recently, Quyên was also an Associate Producer for two Sundance award winning feature films–Julie Ha and Eugene Yi's Free Chol Soo Lee (2022) and Sing J. Lee's The Accidental Getaway Driver (2023).

quyennl.com; IG: @smellydurianface

Director: Teb Chaw (Land)

Joua Lee Grande is a filmmaker and community educator with a deep commitment to elevating underrepresented voices. Her work has been featured on WORLD Channel, PBS Digital, and the PBS Short Film Festival. Her short film On All Fronts received an Honorable Mention from CAAMFest's Loni Ding Award for Social Justice Documentary. This film is part of a television series that won a Silver Anthem Award and received a Daytime Emmy nomination in 2023.

In 2023, Joua was selected as a True/False Confluence Fellow and a PBS Accelerator Fellow. Before diving into her filmmaking career, she was a news editor at WCCO TV 4 News. She has also been recognized as a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow (2021-2023), a MediaJustice Network Fellow (2021), and a Diverse Voices in Docs fellow in (2019). As a speaker, instructor, consultant and mentor, she values passing on knowledge and resources to build a robust and diverse filmmaking community both locally and nationally.

www.joualeegrande.com; IG: joualeelens

Director: The Market

Oanh-Nhi Nguyen is a filmmaker and activist with a decade of experience in gender and racial justice. Her films center Asian women and girls, exploring themes of diaspora, immigrant experiences, and intergenerational relationships.

A graduate of the prestigious AFI Conservatory's MFA Directing program, she has directed five short films, with her latest work "LITTLE BIRD" showcasing at the AFI Conservatory Showcase during AFI Fest and accepted into Cinequest Film Festival for 2025. In just two years, Oanh-Nhi has garnered numerous accolades, including her participation in Tribeca's 2024 Creators Market, where she pitched her projects to industry professionals and her comedy pilot "UNACCEPTABLE" was accepted into the 2022 Athena's Writers Lab. Her directorial docuseries debut, TAKING ROOT was officially selected for the 2023 Tribeca Festival.

Now, as one of ten filmmakers chosen for Hillman Grad and Indeed's Rising Voices program, Oanh-Nhi is directing and co-writing "THE STAND," a short film set to premiere at Tribeca in June 2025.

www.oanhnhinguyen.com; IG: oanhnhi.nguyen