Roseanne Liang

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Roseanne Liang
Born
New Zealand
Alma mater University of Auckland
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active2003–present

Roseanne Liang is a 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] She also co-created, directed, and co-wrote the 2021 TV series Creamerie .

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Early life

Liang was born in New Zealand to Hong Kong emigrants. Her parents were doctors, one was a pediatrician and the other a surgeon. [3] She has two sisters. [4] Liang attended St Cuthbert's College, Auckland, and was dux of the school in 1995. [5]

She went on to study computer science at the University of Auckland. [3] She graduated with a Masters in Creative and Performing Arts in 2003. [4]

Career

Liang made her directorial debut with the autobiographical documentary film Banana in a Nutshell (2005), which was about her own cross-cultural romance with a Pākehā. [6] The film won Best Documentary at DOCNZ International Documentary Film Festival. [7] Liang won Best Director of Documentary Films at Asian Festival of First Films. [7] The film was screened at New Zealand International Film Festival 2005, [8] where she met John Barnett, a producer from South Pacific Pictures, who requested a feature length adaptation of the documentary. [4]

That project later became the romantic comedy My Wedding and Other Secrets (2011). [1] The film won Best Actress and Best Screenplay Award for a feature film at the Aotearoa Film & Television Awards. [2]

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. [9] [10] In 2008, she was awarded Women in Film and Television International's Woman to Watch Award for Women in Film and Television. [5]

Liang is a part of the Thousand Apologies Collective, a creative cohort of seven writers and filmmakers based in Auckland, New Zealand, which includes Shuchi Kothari and Serina Pearson. They made their television debut with their pan-Asian sketch comedy series A Thousand Apologies on TV3, New Zealand's first prime time Asian program. [11] [12] Kothari and Liang later cofounded the Pan-Asian Screen Collective with others in August 2018 to support Asian filmmakers in New Zealand. [13]

In 2017, she directed a short film Do No Harm, which was selected to be shown at the Manhattan Short film festival [14] and the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. [15]

In 2020, Liang directed and co-wrote Shadow in the Cloud , a WWII action-horror film, starring Chloë Grace Moretz from a story treatment by Max Landis. It debuted at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the People's Choice Award. [16]

Filmography

Short film

YearTitleDirectorWriter
2005Rest StopYesNo
2008Take 3YesYes
2015Sugar HitYesYes
2017Do No HarmYesYes

Feature film

YearTitleDirectorWriterNotes
2005Banana in a NutshellYesNoDocumentary
2011 My Wedding and Other Secrets YesYes
2020 Shadow in the Cloud YesYes

Television

YearTitleDirectorWriter
2008A Thousand ApologiesYesYes
2021 Creamerie YesYes
2024 Avatar: The Last Airbender YesNo

Web series

YearTitleDirectorWriterNotes
2013 Flat3 YesYes12 episodes
2016–2018Friday Night BitesYesYes
2017UnboxedYesNo6 episodes

Personal life

Liang is married to Stephen Harris, the subject of Banana in a Nutshell. [17] They have two children. [16]

Accolades

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