Roseanne Liang
Roseanne Liang is a Chinese-New Zealand film director. Her first feature film was the first theatrically released feature film made by a Chinese New Zealander, and became 2011's highest grossing local feature film.
Liang attended St Cuthbert's College, Auckland, and was dux of the school in 1995. She then went on to study at the University of Auckland, graduating with a Masters in Creative and Performing Arts. Her first significant film was Banana in a Nutshell, a documentary which was based on her own cross-cultural romance with a European New Zealander.
Liang subsequently re-made the film into a romantic comedy, My Wedding and Other Secrets. The film won Best Actress and Best Screenplay Award for a feature film at the Aotearoa Film & Television Awards and Audience Choice Awards at two New York film festivals. Liang won SPADA New Filmmaker of the Year in 2005 for her work on the film.
Liang has also directed a short film Take 3, which won awards in 2007 at the Berlin and Valladolid Film Festivals, and hit web series Flat3 and Friday Night Bites. In 2008 she was awarded Women in Film and Television International’s Woman to Watch Award for Women in Film and Television.
In 2012 Liang received a Sir Peter Blake Leadership Award. In 2017 she directed a short film Do No Harm, which was selected to be shown at the Manhattan Short film festival.
