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Mad Cow Director and writer Maegan Houang has written the final episode 'A dream of a dream' of FX's Shōgun Season 1. The show took home a record breaking 18 awards at the 2024 Emmy's this month and made history as the first ever non-English language series to win for best drama.
Jul 30, 2024 · Photo courtesy of Maegan Houang. Maegan Houang’s work is stunningly transportative and distinguishes her as one of the most exciting up-and-coming filmmakers on the scene. But she didn’t always imagine herself in film.
Delve into Los Angeles-based director Maegan Houang’s filmography, and you’ll be stunned at some of the macabre things that you’ll find. Horror, unnerving tension, and elements of dark fantasy all come together in her works time and time again, coalescing in a kaleidoscope of gruesome ideas.
Jan 16, 2024 · Astonishing Little Feet - a short film by Maegan Houang. Afong Moy, the first documented Chinese woman to come to the United States, realizes the men who separated her from her family only have interest in profiting off the peculiarities of her bound feet. 9 MIN.
Feb 20, 2024 · When director Maegan Houang first encountered Afong Moy’s story, she was struck by the parallels between Moy’s treatment, and the current treatment of Asian American women. “Asian American women are seen as commodities, and hyper-sexualized objects for consumption—that’s essentially what she was,” she told Ms.
Aug 7, 2019 · In Full Bloom: A Short Film on the Black Hole of Grief. In a conversation with VSCO, filmmaker Maegan Houang explains that “ In Full Bloom tells the story of Cecile, an elderly Vietnamese hoarder, whose life is upended when worms open a black hole in her house and threaten to take all her stuff.
Given creative control and $3,000, she directed the video for “Happy” from Mitski’s 2016 album Puberty 2, which involves a 1950s-inspired Asian housewife whose white husband possesses a heinous secret. The video was a success, but Houang still had trouble securing representation, as a result of which she “fell into a slump because I’m ...
