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Feng-I Fiona Roan. Director: American Girl. Feng-I received her Directing MFA degree from AFI and was previously trained in classical Chinese Literature at National Taiwan University. Her debut feature, American Girl, was shortlisted in the 2021 Tokyo International Film Festival's Asian Future section.
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- Feng-I Fiona Roan
Feng-i Fiona Roan is a Taiwanese-American writer/director based in Los Angeles and Taipei. She received her Directing MFA degree from American Film Institute and was previously trained in classical Chinese Literature at National Taiwan University.
Mar 1, 2022 · “It was a crisis moment for all of us, and not just me.” That is how writer-director Fiona Roan Feng-i (阮鳳儀) remembers 2003, when she was uprooted from the US as a 13-year-old after her mother was diagnosed with cancer and brought back to Taiwan, where she had lived as a young child.
American Girl (Chinese: 美國女孩) is a 2021 Taiwanese drama film directed as the debut feature by Fiona Roan Feng-i. It depicts the semi-autobiographical story of Fen Liang, who returns to Taiwan from the United States with her mother and younger sister after their mother is diagnosed with breast cancer, during the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak .
[Director of American Girl shares thoughts for women today]Feng-I Fiona Roan is the director of American Girl, which just premiered on Netflix, and the first...
Feng-I Fiona Roan. Director: American Girl. Feng-I received her Directing MFA degree from AFI and was previously trained in classical Chinese Literature at National Taiwan University. Her debut feature, American Girl, was shortlisted in the 2021 Tokyo International Film Festival's Asian Future section.
Sep 27, 2019 · JIEJIE, Mandarin for sister, is directed by Asian-American writer and director Feng-I Fiona Roan. Her film won the prestigious HBO Asian Pacific American Visionary Award in 2018. At its heart, JIEJIE is an Asian American story of first-generation immigration experience from the view of a child.
