Lin Que Ayoung is an award-winning queer writer/director/producer who started her career as a Hip Hop Performer and Lyricist. She obtained 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 directing The Dreamer aka La Soñadora. It was an Official Selection to HBO's 2019 New York Latino Film Festival.
Lin Que's thesis film, Cracked, won The Spike Lee Production Fund Grant, the 2nd Prize King Wasserman Award for Best Graduate Film at the 2021 First Run Film Festival, and the Craft Awards for Cinematography and Acting. Cracked had its World Premiere at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.