Quyen Tran (Cinematographer) received fine art and photography training at the University of Virginia and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. before entering UCLA's famed MFA Film Program. 

Before switching to motion pictures, she spent three years in New York City as a freelance photojournalist for organizations such as the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Associated Press.  Several of her photographs of 9/11 were prominently featured in newspapers, magazines, books and documentaries, and one was nominated for a World Press Photo Award. 

At UCLA, she was the only student to ever win the school's Best Cinematography prize two years in a row, for the short films Chinese Dumplings and Broken Fists.  Among her favorite short films were  Softly  (Slamdance), Rubberheart (Palm Springs, Oslo, London Film Festivals) and Joburg (Telluride, Los Angeles Film Festival), which was shot entirely on location in South Africa. 

Quyen finished three feature films this year, including the narrative feature Duck Farm No. 13, which stars Theresa Russell and Hallee

Hirsch.  She also completed two feature length documentaries, which took her to the exotic locales of Vietnam and Thailand. 

Other recent projects include music videos for Keite Young, an action mobisode series for 20th Century Fox, and behind-the-scenes footage for the hit TV series House.  She also collaborated with artist Bruce Yonemoto on a video installation piece entitled "Consider This" that showed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 

Quyen is Vietnamese-American, and is fluent in Vietnamese and English.  She has also studied German, Latin, and Italian.