Roseanne Liang

Roseanne Liang is a Chinese-New Zealand film director.[1] Her first feature film, My Wedding and Other Secrets, was the first theatrically released feature film made by a Chinese New Zealander, and became 2011's highest grossing local feature film.[2]

Roseanne Liang
Born
New Zealand
Alma materSt Cuthbert's College, Auckland
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active2003-present

Biography

Liang attended St Cuthbert's College, Auckland, and was dux of the school in 1995.[3] She then went on to study at the University of Auckland, graduating with a Masters in Creative and Performing Arts.[4][5] Her first significant film was Banana in a Nutshell, a documentary which was based on her own cross-cultural romance with a European New Zealander.

Liang subsequently re-made the film into a romantic comedy, My Wedding and Other Secrets (2011). The film won Best Actress and Best Screenplay Award for a feature film at the Aotearoa Film & Television Awards and Audience Choice Awards at two New York film festivals.[2] Liang won SPADA New Filmmaker of the Year in 2005 for her work on the film.[3]

Liang also directed the short film Take 3, which won awards in 2007 at the Berlin and Valladolid Film Festivals, and the hit web series Flat3 and Friday Night Bites.[1][6] In 2008 she was awarded Women in Film and Television International's Woman to Watch Award for Women in Film and Television.[3]

In 2012 Liang received a Sir Peter Blake Leadership Award.[3] In 2017 she directed a short film Do No Harm, which was selected to be shown at the Manhattan Short film festival.[7]

In 2020 Liang directed and co-wrote Shadow in the Cloud, a WWII action-horror film.

References
  1. "Roseanne Liang | NZ On Screen". www.nzonscreen.com. NZ On Screen. Retrieved 2018-05-06.CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. "WIFT New Zealand | Film and Television Industry News from Women in Film and Television New Zealand - Roseanne Liang". www.wiftnz.org.nz. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  3. "Sir Peter Blake Leadership Awards | Old Girls' Association". www.stcuthberts.school.nz. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  4. "My Wedding and Other Secrets". wellywoodwoman.blogspot.co.nz. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  5. "Roseanne Liang – My Wedding and Other Secrets | St Cuthbert's College". www.stcuthberts.school.nz. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  6. "Roseanne Liang tipped by Hollywood Reporter as director to watch". Stuff. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  7. "Kiwi short film Do No Harm earns Oscars nod at Manhattan Short". Stuff. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
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