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Quyen Tran

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Quyen Tran
Born
🏡 ResidenceLos Angeles, CA
🎓 Alma materUCLA
💼 Occupation
Cinematographer
👩 Spouse(s)Sam Reigel
👶 Children2
🌐 Websitehttp://www.quyenfilm.com/

Quyen Tran is a Los Angeles based cinematographer. She has worked on multiple Sundance films such as The Little Hours and Deidra & Laney Rob a Train.[1]

Filmography[edit]

Feature Films
Year Title Director
2016 The Night Stalker Megan Griffiths
2018 Dark Was the Night (formerly Behold My Heart) Joshua Leonard
2017 The Little Hours Jeff Baena
2017 Deidra & Laney Rob A Train Sydney Freeland
2015 Pali Road Jonathan Lim
2015 Off the Menu: Asian America Grace Lee
2016 To The Moon & Back Susan Morgan Cooper
2015 The Automatic Hate[2] Justin Lerner
2013 American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs Grace Lee
2013 Free Ride Shana Sosin
2011 Mulberry Child Susan Morgan Cooper
2010 Troublemaker Geeta Malik
2010 Girlfriend[2] Justin Lerner
2011 A Bag of Hammers Brian Crano
2009 The People I've Slept With[3] Quentin Lee
2009 16 to Life Becky Smith
2008 Vietnam Overtures Stephane Gauger
Kingship Julien Favre


Shorts
Year Title Director Notes
SMILF Frankie Shaw Winner, Jury award for Sundance Shorts
Keystone Brandon Fayette
Noel Joseph Holt
The Learning Curve Phil McCarty
Whispers George Ratliff
The Empty Space in Between Maria Tornberg
The Waiting Room Katharine O'Brien'
Imaginary Bitches Andrew Miller Emmy Nomination
The Fence Matt Silas
Monkey Yoshie Suzuki
Joburg[4] Thabo Wolfaardt
Beast Geeta Malik
Chinese Dumplings Michelle Hung
A Watermelon Seed Miqi Huang
Hurricane Party AP Gonzalez
Maggie's Not Here Justin Lerner
Swallow Emily Taylor-Mortorff
Echostop Justin Lerner
Appearance in a documentary
Year Title Role Crew role, notes
2011 "Sam Riegel and Quyen Tran on 9/11"[5] Herself Documentary footage on 9/11 attack, used in 102 Minutes That Changed America and other documentaries

Photography[edit]

Tran began her artistic career as a still photographer. Her photos have appeared in the New York Times[6][7], LA Times[8], USA Today, New York Post, New York Daily News, Dateline NBC, HBO’s In Memoriam, BBC, CNN International News, PBS, Sacramento Bee, The Age (Australia), Scientific American, Variety, TV Guide, and more. She was nominated for the World Press Photo Award.

Education[edit]

Quyen Tran earned her MFA from UCLA in 2007.

Awards and honors[edit]

  • Best Cinematography UCLA Spotlight: 2008, 2007, 2006
  • Best Feature Cinematography – Wild Rose Film Festival
  • Federico de Laurentiis Memorial Scholarship
  • National Theater Goers Alliance Scholarship

Personal Life[edit]

Tran is bilingual, fluent in English and Vietnamese. She is married to voice actor Sam Reigel and they have 2 children.

Article mentions and interviews[edit]

#belowthelinesowhite? Hollywood’s Rank & File Leaders Tackle Diversity[9]

Four Asian-American Women Share Their Experiences Working in Hollywood, by Peter Caranicas[10]

From 'Handmaid's Tale' to 'Altered Carbon': 4 Cinematographers on Shooting "Epic and Intimate" Scenes, by Carolyn Giardina[11]

How 'The Little Hours' DP Used 'Crazy Rigs' to Recreate Film School on an Unpredictable Set, by Hawkins DuBois[12]

“How to Sell the Outrageous Premise of the Film”: DP Quyen Tran on Deidra & Laney Rob a Train, by Filmmaker Staff[13]

International Women’s Day: 17 female cinematographers to celebrate, by Nikki Baughman[14]

Interview: Cinematographer Quyen Tran on the Minute Details of Filming “The Little Hours," by Stephen Saito[15]

Motion picture academy invites largest class ever in continued push for diversity, by Josh Rottenberg[16]

Sundance 2017 Q+A — Cinematographer Quyen Tran, by David Alexander Willis[17]

Take It From a DP (and Holly Hunter): Follow Your Instincts on Set, by Benjamin Lindsay[18]

Quyen Tran on Shooting Frankie Shaw’s Sundance-Winning SMILF, by Scott Macaulay[19]

References[edit]

  1. Erbland, Kate; O'Falt, Chris; Erbland, Kate (2017-01-23). "Girl Talk Live: Female Cinematographers on How They Made Their Sundance Films — Watch". IndieWire. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Harvey, Dennis (2015-11-06). "Film Review: 'The Automatic Hate'". Variety. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  3. Catsoulis, Jeannette (2010-08-12). "A Trashy Bachelorette From Quentin Lee Josh Crook's Raw Look at the Dominican Corruption Annemarie Jacir's Drama on the Israel-Palestine Standoff". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  4. "Sundance Film Festival to screen UCLA-affiliated films". dailybruin.com. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  5. Editors, History com, Sam Riegel and Quyen Tran on 9/11, retrieved 2019-02-01
  6. Dowd, Maureen (2015-02-28). "Opinion | Dirty Words From Pretty Mouths". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  7. Hale, Mike (2011-07-14). "'Girlfriend,' About Young Man With Down Syndrome - Review". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  8. Rechtshaffen, Michael. "In 'Automatic Hate,' the ties that bind are bitter and spiteful". latimes.com. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  9. Weiner, Rex (2016-02-24). "#belowthelinesowhite? Hollywood's Rank & File Leaders Tackle Diversity". Capital & Main. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  10. Caranicas, Peter; Caranicas, Peter (2016-11-01). "Four Asian-American Women Share Their Experiences Working in Hollywood". Variety. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  11. "'Altered Carbon' - From 'Handmaid's Tale' to 'Altered Carbon': 4 Cinematographers on Shooting "Epic and Intimate" Scenes". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  12. DuBois, Hawkins (2017-06-30). "How 'The Little Hours' DP Used 'Crazy Rigs' to Recreate Film School on an Unpredictable Set". No Film School. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  13. Staff, Filmmaker. ""How to Sell the Outrageous Premise of the Film": DP Quyen Tran on Deidra & Laney Rob a Train". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  14. Baughman, Nikki. "International Women's Day: 17 female cinematographers to celebrate". British Film Institute. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  15. "Interview: Cinematographer Quyen Tran on the Minute Details of Filming "The Little Hours"". The Moveable Fest. 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  16. Rottenberg, Josh. "Motion picture academy invites largest class ever in continued push for diversity". latimes.com. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  17. "Sundance 2017 Q+A — Cinematographer Quyen Tran". HD Video Pro. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  18. "Take It From a DP (and Holly Hunter): Follow Your Instincts on Set". www.backstage.com. 2018-03-13. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  19. Macaulay, Scott. "Quyen Tran on Shooting Frankie Shaw's Sundance-Winning SMILF". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 2019-01-29.


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