Quyen Tran
Quyen Tran is a Vietnamese-American cinematographer based in Los Angeles. She has worked on multiple Sundance films such as The Little Hours and Deidra & Laney Rob a Train.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Director |
| TBA | Life in a Year | Mitja Okorn |
| 2020 | Palm Springs | Max Barbakow |
| 2019 | Unbelievable | Lisa Cholodenko |
| 2018 | Here and Now | Alan Ball |
| 2016 | The Night Stalker | Megan Griffiths |
| 2018 | Dark Was the Night | Joshua Leonard |
| 2017 | The Little Hours | Jeff Baena |
| 2017 | Deidra & Laney Rob A Train | Sydney Freeland |
| 2015 | Pali Road | Jonathan Lim |
| 2015 | Grace Lee | |
| 2016 | To The Moon & Back | Susan Morgan Cooper |
| 2015 | The Automatic Hate | Justin Lerner |
| 2013 | Grace Lee | |
| 2013 | Free Ride | Shana Sosin |
| 2011 | Mulberry Child | Susan Morgan Cooper |
| 2010 | Troublemaker | Geeta Malik |
| 2010 | Girlfriend | Justin Lerner |
| 2011 | A Bag of Hammers | Brian Crano |
| 2009 | The People I've Slept With | Quentin Lee |
| 2009 | 16 to Life | Becky Smith |
| 2008 | Vietnam Overtures | Stephane Gauger |
| Kingship | Julien Favre |
| 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 | 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 |
Photography
Tran began her artistic career as a still photographer. Her photos have appeared in the New York Times, LA Times, USA Today, New York Post, New York Daily News, Dateline NBC, HBO’s In Memoriam, BBC, CNN International News, PBS, Sacramento Bee, The Age, Scientific American, Variety, TV Guide, and more. She was nominated for the World Press Photo Award.Education
After 9/11 Tran applied to film school and was accepted to UCLA. That’s when she and her partner headed west. She studied film at UCLA. Roger Deakins was a cinematographer-in-residence at the time of her attendance and became one of her mentors.Awards and honors
- 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
Article mentions and interviews
Between the Sheets: Quyen Tran, Critical Role interview with Brian W. FosterFour Asian-American Women Share Their Experiences Working in Hollywood, by Peter Caranicas
From 'Handmaid's Tale' to 'Altered Carbon': 4 Cinematographers on Shooting "Epic and Intimate" Scenes, by Carolyn Giardina
Girlfriend, by John Anderson
How 'The Little Hours' DP Used 'Crazy Rigs' to Recreate Film School on an Unpredictable Set, by Hawkins DuBois
“How to Sell the Outrageous Premise of the Film”: DP Quyen Tran on Deidra & Laney Rob a Train, by Filmmaker Staff
International Women’s Day: 17 female cinematographers to celebrate, by Nikki Baughman
Interview: Cinematographer Quyen Tran on the Minute Details of Filming “The Little Hours," by Stephen Saito
Motion picture academy invites largest class ever in continued push for diversity, by Josh Rottenberg
Netflix limited series explores effects of society failing to believe women, by Max Kieling
Sundance 2017 Q+A — Cinematographer Quyen Tran, by David Alexander Willis
Take It From a DP : Follow Your Instincts on Set, by Benjamin Lindsay
Quyen Tran on Shooting Frankie Shaw’s Sundance-Winning SMILF, by Scott Macaulay