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Jul 30, 2024 · Mixed Asian Media–Maegan Houang: Affirming our Histories in Film. 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. On the heels of her latest film release, Astonishing Little Feet, Houang sits down with ...
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.
Aug 7, 2019 · Aug 7, 2019. 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. Inspired by my own personal experiences, the film is a surrealistic take on how the death ...
Jun 27, 2019 · Maegan Houang Weaves an Alluringly Surreal Tale of Memory & Loss in Fantasy Short ‘In Full Bloom’. DN alum director Maegan Houang’s In Full Bloom tells a story of memory; an old woman living in her apartment becomes confronted by relics from her past, causing a void to manifest itself in the middle of her floor.
Houang graduated in 2010 with degrees in Mathematical Economics and Film, then immediately enrolled in Wesleyan’s Film Studies MA (specializing in Johnnie To’s filmography). The program revealed a huge disparity between her classmates’ resources versus her own. “I was watching their parents give them $30,000 to make a short,” she recalls.
Maegan Houang’s short film In Full Bloom will be screened at various film festivals across the USA, including the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival on Monday, May 6th and San Francisco/Oakland’s CAAM Fest on Friday, May 10th. Cover photo by Bao Ngo. In Full Bloom Website: Link. Artist pages: Twitter | Website
Jan 16, 2024 · Directed By Maegan HouangProduced By Pin-Chun LiuMade In USA. Rob Munday. Returning to our site almost five-years after we first featured her work, emerging filmmaker Maegan Houang is back on S/W with her unusual period drama Astonishing Little Feet. Based around the real-life story of Afong Moy, the first documented Chinese woman to come to ...
