Biography

Lin Que Ayoung is an award-winning 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 was also awarded 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 WarnerMedia and is streaming on HBO MAX.

Amongst her achievements with Cracked, Lin Que was chosen to be a fellow of the Gotham Marcie Bloom Fellowship Program, one of the ten Women Director's selected for Issa Rae's Project Greenlight, and a mentee for Ryan Murphy's HALF Initiative Director Shadowing Program where she received extensive mentorship from Steven Canals, the 3-time Emmy-nominated Co-creator, Showrunner, and Writer/Director of FX's groundbreaking drama series Pose.

Lin Que was also selected to be a Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow as a co-writer for the feature film Ricky. Ricky, which stars Stephan James and Sheryl Lee Ralph, had its World Premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. There, it won the Directing Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition.
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In late 2009, Lin Que launched the We are the Girl Movement by releasing the single "Suga-Coated" featuring nine female emcees and singer Rachel Walker. All proceeds from the single go to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity.