Fabian Hee

Fabian Hee was born in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. After finishing his studies in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Fabian ventured into the video game industry, fulfilling his childhood dream of making games. While working as a sound designer in the industry, he realized that his passion lies in creating cinematic atmospheres and soundscapes that formed the worlds of the games he worked on. He began teaching himself filmmaking, using YouTube as an experimental playground, and released his first short film Google is Skynet is Nokia (2014) which won the Award of Merit at the Accolade Global Film Competition. His next successful short film The Accountant, the Man (2014) was nominated and screened as part of the Asians on Film Festival, USA and I Filmmaker International Film Festival in Spain. Following that, he set up a post-production studio and released his film Defenders of The Rainforest (2016) to showcase his team's visual effects capabilities, winning the "Sarawak Movie in the Rainforest" short film competition. He then worked together with British director Taras Demian Groves in late 2016 to create a cinematic soundscape for his short film Nowhere (2016) which went on to win multiple awards the world over.