Roseanne Liang

Roseanne Liang is a 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. She also co-created, directed, and co-wrote the 2021 TV series Creamerie. Early life Liang was born in New Zealand to Hong Kong emigrants. Her parents were doctors, one was a pediatrician and the other a surgeon. She has two sisters. Liang attended St Cuthbert's College, Auckland, and was dux of the school in 1995. She went on to study computer science at the University of Auckland. She graduated with a Masters in Creative and Performing Arts in 2003. Career Liang made her directorial debut with the autobiographical documentary film Banana in a Nutshell (2005), which was about her own cross-cultural romance with a Pākehā. The film won Best Documentary at DOCNZ International Documentary Film Festival. Liang won Best Director of Documentary Films at Asian Festival of First Films. The film was screened at New Zealand International Film Festival 2005, where she met John Barnett, a producer from South Pacific Pictures, who requested a feature length adaptation of the documentary.