Announcement
- Finally started really reading "Walden." According to Thoreau's "Economy," changing clothes should more reasonably happen at important junctures in life; similarly to molting, or leaving a chrysalis.
Vital Stats: Wendy Cheng
- Member for: 924 day(s)
- Gender: Female
- Location: New York City , Ridgewood, NJ
- Languages spoken: English, Mandarin
- Relationship status: In a relationship
- Interested in meeting people for:: Just looking Around
- Bloodtype: O
- Chinese Zodiac: Tiger
- Astrological Sign: Aries 3/21-4/19
- Smoking: Don't smoke
- Alcohol drinking: Occasionally
About Me
Wendy has a BA in English Literature from Cornell University and an MFA in Filmmaking from New York University. Her thesis film, Moon Lady, won Best Narrative Short at the San Diego Asian Film Festival 2008, and the Lillian Onque Award at the Gate City Women's Film Festival 2009, and was also an Official Selection of Slamdance 2009. She worked as a feature programmer for Slamdance 2010, and is currently redrafting two feature film scripts.
Background
- Hometown: Edison, NJ
- Occupation: Filmmaker
- Companies: FooBi Films
- Schools: Cornell University, NYU Grad Film
- Hobbies and interests: Fine Arts, Literature / Writing, Photography, Politics, Raquet Sports, Nature Sports, Basketball, Martial Arts, Gardening, Music, Concerts / Clubbing, Films / Movies, Television, Animals, Religious Activities, Family Time, Food / Cooking, Travelling, Theater / Acting
Favorites
- Favorite Music: Debussy, Ravel, Elgar, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Gershwin, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Anita O'Day, Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, U2, the Cure, Bjork, the Sugarcubes, Fleetwood Mac, Radiohead, the Sundays, Jimi Hendrix, Cyndi Lauper, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Innocence Mission, Ahmad Jamal, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Arsenio Rodriguez, tunes from musicals like Oliver, Singing in the Rain, South Pacific, Sweet Charity
- Favorite Movies: Once, Old Joy, Sideways, Y Tu Mama Tambien, City of God, Pulp Fiction, Old Boy, Drugstore Cowboy, Blind Shaft, Volver, Do The Right Thing, In the Mood for Love, The Silence, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, Dreams, the Hole, Fallen Angels, Suzhou River, La Strada, Il Grido, Raise the Red Lantern, Sunset Boulevard, La Notte di Cabiria, Manhattan, Annie Hall, The Little Prince, Terms of Endearment, Kramer vs. Kramer, The Wizard of Oz, Annie, Pollyanna, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the Color Purple, Singing in the Rain, The Cranes are Flying, I am Cuba, Legally Blonde, Borat, Renoir's A Day in the Country, Manhattan, too many others
- Favorite Tv Shows: friends, saturday night live, fantasy island, little house on the prairie, cheers, three's company, amazing stories, the cosby show, mad about you, mad TV
- Favorite Books: roald dahl's 'charlie and the chocolate factory' and others, ray bradbury's the illustrated man, em forster's 'howard's end', herman hesse's narcissus and goldmund, kundera's the unbearable lightness of being, thomas merton's on solitude, madeleine l'engle's a wrinkle in time, laura wilder's little house on the prarie, lousia may alcott's little women, fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby and Fitzgerald's short stories, salinger's A Catcher in the Rye, shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, hurston's THeir Eyes were watching God, Murakami's Wind up bird chronicle, Sedaris' Naked and Other Stories, Flannery O'Connor's short stories, Kafka's Metamorphosis and other Short Stories,
- Favorite Faves: making dreams come true
