Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticBorn in New Zealand to a family of Chinese doctors, action maven Roseanne Liang describes herself as a “classic immigrant-child overachiever” who’d never questioned that she was destined to become a doctor until she got into medical school.She deferred her acceptance for a year and decided to take classes that aligned more closely with her personal interests. “I was obsessed with Pixar and computer animation, so I did computer science and film theory,” says Liang, whose “Shadow in the Cloud” blends CG gremlins with a feminist action hero.A big fan of Weta (“They’re very scientific, nerdy people, and I feel very at home in that world”), Liang watches “Terminator 2” every year and dreams of directing a James.
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