Cracked

Directed by Lin Que Ayoung

Type of Project: Drama 
Length: 15:19
Producer: Lin Que Ayoung
Editors: Lin Que Ayoung and Rashad Frett
Cinematographer: Lorena Duran
Sound Design: Lin Que Ayoung

It's 1985 in Queens, New York. Toya falls in love for the first time. Before she has a chance to sneak outside to see him, her father delivers some bad news. Although Toya brushes it off, it seems to be affecting her every move. After she witnesses a disturbing event, Toya musters the courage to open up about her past.

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Lin Que is a writer/director/producer from New York City. She started her career as a Hip Hop Performer and Lyricist. After three major record deals, the growing misogyny and homophobia caused her to go back to school with the hope of transforming her verbal poetry into visual lyricism. Upon obtaining an MFA from NYU’s Graduate Film Program in May of 2020, Lin Que’s a two-time winner of the BAFTA-NY Scholarship, the winner of the 2018 New York Women in Film and Television Scholarship, and the recipient of NYU’s 2018 First Run Film Festival Craft Award for Directing for her film, The Dreamer.  The Dreamer was also an Official Selection at the 2019 New York Latino Film Festival. Her thesis film, Cracked, which won The 2019 Spike Lee Production Fund, is a true story based on her childhood with a focus on the loss of innocence that many children have to endure in order to survive. Cracked will be hitting the festival circuit in 2021. Among her many accomplishments, Nowhere, Lin Que’s third-year film at Tisch, was recently selected for the 2020 Full Spectrum Features: Emerging Black Filmmaker Collection.