Weiko Lin

Fluent in Mandarin, Weiko is a writer/producer and author who explore Asian diaspora and create global narrative content. Currently, he is developing two Disney+ Asia Pacific original one-hour series and a feature biopic about an American flying ace of World War II with Oscar nominee Andrew Lazar (AMERICAN SNIPER) attached to produce.

He authored CRAZY SCREENWRITING SECRETS: HOW TO CAPTURE A GLOBAL AUDIENCE (Michael Wiese Productions, 2019) and its traditional Chinese edition 好萊塢劇本創作術 (Briefing Press, 2022).

His past commissioned works include feature adaptation of New York Times best-selling memoir RIVER TOWN by MacArthur Fellow Peter Hessler and a series pilot based on a Penguin YA novel for Super Deluxe. He has written projects for The Mark Gordon Company, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Ivanhoe Pictures/SK Global, Don Mischer Productions, and Wanda Pictures. He wrote the original story for and produced the Chinese romance film 100 DAYS 真愛 100 天 that world premiered at Hawaii International Film Festival and was an official selection at the Golden Rooster Hundred Flowers Film Festival in Mainland China.

He is a director in the Ryan Murphy HALF Initiative where he shadowed on 911 Lone Star.

A Sundance Collab Advisor, he was Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship Finalist and Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award recipient. Prior to LMU, he was a tenured Associate Professor of Screenwriting at Emerson College and has taught at Northwestern University, UCLA Film and TV Professional Program, and Taipei National University of the Arts as a Fulbright Senior Specialist.

A current-active member of Writers Guild of America West, he previously served as co-chair of the guild’s Asian American Writers committee. He is represented by Anonymous Content and United Talent Agency.