Chris Chan Lee

Chris Chan Lee is a Korean American filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA. He graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. His debut feature film as writer/director was "Yellow" (1997), a coming of age drama/comedy about a group of Asian American teens in Los Angeles. The film features the first performances of John Cho and Jason Tobin. "Yellow" world premiered at the 1997 CAAMFest Film Festival (then called NAATA) and later won the Gold Carp 1st Place Audience Award for Best Feature Film and the Golden Reel Award for Best Independent Feature Film. "Yellow" had a successful limited national theatrical release including a 5-week run in Southern California across 9 screens. The film is considered a milestone in Asian American filmmaking. Lee spent a year directing English-language prime time television at MediaCorp Studios in Singapore for Channel 5. His season of "Growing Up" went on to garner a Best Drama nomination at the Asian Television Awards. During this period his political thriller screenplay "Revolution of One" was optioned by Wong Kar Wai's Jet Tone Films. He is a 2004 Fellow of the Tribeca Film Festival All Access Program and a two-time Fellow of the Film Independent Fast Track Program. Lee's second feature film as writer/director was "Undoing" (2006), a noir thriller set in LA's Koreatown. "Undoing" was nominated for Best Feature Film by the Los Angeles Film Festival and had a theatrical release in NYC, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. In 2015 Lee edited and produced "Jasmine", directed by Dax Phelan, a dark thriller filmed in Hong Kong. "Jasmine" has won more than 100 awards, including numerous "Best Feature Film" awards plus 9 wins and 9 nominations to Lee for Best Editing.