Lin Que Ayoung is an award-winning writer/director/producer. Upon obtaining an MFA from NYU's Tisch Graduate Film program, her thesis film, Cracked, which won The Spike Lee Production Grant, won the 2nd Prize King Wasserman Award for Best Graduate Film at NYU's First Run Film Festival. There, it also won Craft Awards for Acting and Cinematography. Cracked had its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and was selected to compete at the Chicago International Film Festival, LA Shorts, HollyShorts, and more. Cracked was also selected to be one of the five American Black Film Festival HBO Short Film Competition Finalists and is streaming on MAX.
Most recently, Lin Que was chosen to be a fellow of the Gotham Marcie Bloom Fellowship Program. She was selected to be one of the ten women directors chosen for Issa Rae's Project Greenlight Revival, which is streaming on MAX. Lastly, Lin Que was selected to be a 2023 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow as a co-writer for the feature film, Ricky.
In late 2009, Lin Que launched the We are the Girl Movement by releasing the single "Suga-Coated" featuring nine female emcees and singer Rachel Walker. All proceeds from the single go to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity.