Roseanne Liang

Directing

Biography

Roseanne Liang is a Chinese-New Zealand film director. Her first feature film, My Wedding and Other Secrets, was the first theatrically-released feature film made by a Chinese New Zealander, and became 2011's highest grossing local feature film in New Zealand. In 2020 Liang directed (and partially wrote) Shadow in the Cloud, a World War II fantasy/adventure film.

Filmography Movies

Acting

MOVIE

The Dark Horse

6.3(0.1K)

One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.

1000 Women in Horror

7.0(0.0K)

Is horror a man’s world? You might assume so – but you won’t be thinking that way for long once you investigate the vast contribution women have made to horror movies for well over a century. In 2020, award-winning Australian critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas released the definitive book on the subject: 1000 Women in Horror, 1895–2018, an encyclopaedic work celebrating the many women – filmmakers, actors, producers and technicians – who have shaped the genre since the moment cinema’s light first flickered.

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1000 Women in Horror

Self

Production

MOVIE

My Wedding and Other Secrets

4.4(0.0K)

A journey through a cultural minefield, navigating the divide between the traditional values of immigrant parents and the contemporary aspirations of their children in a new land.

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My Wedding and Other Secrets

Director

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Banana in a Nutshell

6.7(0.0K)

An intimate portrait of a Chinese-European couple in New Zealand, and their journey to get a blessing for marriage from traditional Chinese parents. The story that led to the film, My Wedding and Other Secrets.

Anu

6.2(0.0K)

When a recent widow moves to New Zealand from India, she's forced to confront her grief by completing an ordinary ritual in an extraordinary circumstance: quarantine.

Do No Harm

7.5(0.0K)

3am. Hongjing, China. 1980s. A single-minded surgeon is forced to break her physician's oath when violent gangsters storm into a hospital to stop a crucial operation.

Do No Harm

7.5(0.0K)

3am. Hongjing, China. 1980s. A single-minded surgeon is forced to break her physician's oath when violent gangsters storm into a hospital to stop a crucial operation.

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Do No Harm

Writer