Fei Ren

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Summary

Fei Ren is a Chinese-Canadian actor and director known for The Romeo Section, This Blows, and Polar. She has described rejecting stereotyped, hyper-sexualized roles for Asian women and called for more complex stories for women across ethnicities and demographics; she has said that desire led her to directing. Ren has also spoken in support of #MeToo and discussed gender and sexual politics. Her public record centers on representation and women’s storytelling rather than broader partisan activism.