BIOGRAPHY
JAMES LEE
James Lee a trained graphics designer is an award winning independent filmmaker from Malaysia. started his acting and directing career in the theater scene working for various stage productions and eventually joined the director mentorship program with Joe Hasham (The Actors Studio Malaysia) and the late Krishen Jit (Five Arts Centre).
He's also one of the pioneers of indie digital video film-making. On top of directing he has shot, produced and acted in short & feature films. His films has won awards in film festivals in Bangkok, Hong Kong, Philippines and Singapore.
In 2007 the 9th Deauville Asian Film Festival France had a special focus on the movies of James Lee as a talent to watch. This focus was to acknowledge Lee’s status as one of the pioneer digital filmmakers of the region.
In 2014, the website won the DiGi WWWOW award for the content category. And was invited as a speaker in the TEDxKL 2015.
In 2015 he won Director of the Year in the Singapore advertising award GONG for the branded short film "Last Day of School" which also picked up the Cannes Silver Lion Award in 2016.
He also teaches directing for Sunway University Film Degree program and for the Department of Arts and Media diploma program.
Feature Films
2001, Snipers
2001, Ah Beng Returns
2002, Room to Let
2004, The Beautiful Washing Machine
2004, Visit: Hungry Ghost Anthology
2006, Before We Fall in Love Again
2007, Things We Do When We Fall in Love Again
2007, Bernafas Dalam Lumpur
2007, Waiting for Love
2008, Histeria
2009, Call If You Need Me
2010, Here Got Ghost!
2010 Help! My Girlfriend is a Vampire
2010. Claypot Curry Killers
2011, The Collector
2012, If It's Not Now, Then When?
2016, KL24: Zombies
2018, Kill Fist
2018, Two Sisters
Theater
2016, Nyonya Memoir / Musical
2014, Tales from River Wisdom / Dance Drama
2014, 2 Minutes Solo / Dance
2013, Kopi Susu / Musical
2010, On Anxiety / Dance Drama
2007, Betrayal / Drama
2003, Changi / Drama
2001, Dumb Waiter / Drama
Short Films
1999, Ah Yu's Story
1999, Man From Thailand
1999, Think Positive!
1999, Survivor
2000, Sunflowers
2001, Beautiful Man
2002, Emu Kwan's Tragic Breakfast
2003, Teatime with John
2003, Good-bye
2004, Goodbye to Love
2005, A Moment of Love
2005, Bernafas Dalam Lumpur
2005, Sometimes Love is Beautiful
2007, Wall
2009, Gerhana
2012, The Family Portrait
2012, The Last Supper
2013, Paper Crane Love
2014, The Girl from Tomorrow
2014, Second Life
2014, The Woman Upstairs
2014, All for Love
2014, Passing Lives
2015, Date Me Next Time Please
2015, Tuition
2015, Last Day School
2015, Café Lumiere
2016, My Girlfriend is a Cannibal
2016, She
2017, A Moment of Love
2017, Love to the End
2017, Overtime
2017, The Art of Crying
2018, Reunion Gift
2018, Last Year in Johor
2018, The Hit
2019, See You Next Century
2019, Family Ties
2020, Isolation
2020, I'm Just a Ghost, and That's OK
2020. Freedom
Thai Short Film & Video Festival 2001
TEA TIME WITH JOHN
RD Pestonji Award
International Best Short Film
Bangkok International Film Festival 2005
THE BEAUTIFUL WASHING MACHINE
Best Asean Feature, FIPRESCI
Malaysia Film Festival 2009
HISTERIA
Best New Director, Best Editing
GONG Singapore Creative Circle Awards 2015
LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
Director of the Year,
Gold Award Film & TV Craft Directions
Malaysia Film Festival 2019
TWO SISTERS
Best Original Score
Cyberjaya Digital Video Competition 2003
TEA TIME WITH JOHN
Silver Award
Bangkok International Film Festival 2007
BEFORE WE FALL IN LOVE AGAIN
Best Asean Feature
Hong Kong International Film Fest
2009
CALL IF YOU NEED ME
Silver Digital Award
Cannes Lions
2016
LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
Silver Lion Award
Hollywood Dreamz International
Film Fest 2019
International Short Film 2006
A MOMENT OF LOVE
Special Mention Award
Brussels International film festival 2006
THE BEAUTIFUL WASHING MACHINE
Orbit Mention Award
Cinemanila International Film Festival 2012
IF IT'S NOT NOW, THEN WHEN?
Grand Jury Award
Malaysian Digital Film Awards
2017
KL24: ZOMBIES
Grand Jury Award
KILL-FIST
Best Fight Choreography
Merentas Awan: Kwang Tung Dance Company releases monthly photo and videography series to raise funds
The 15 Best Asian Horror / Exploitation Movies of 2019
Telling a tale of Two Sisters
04 April 2019 Read...
FIRST LOOK: Meet The Kung Fu Killers In James Lee’s KILL-FIST
08 July 2018 [Read...]
SECOND LIFE: A Dialogue With Malaysian Filmmaker James Lee
08 July 2018 [Read...]
The creativity behind "KL24: Zombies"
08 January 2017 [Read...]
James Lee attempts to re-define film-making through smartphones!
27 July 2017 [Read...]
李添興有信心 拍出好萊塢水準
16 February 2017 [Read...]
Short Film Isn’t Just a Calling Card, but a Snapshot to Your Talent
25 April 2016 [Read...]
FIVE EASY PIECES: JAMES LEE AND 3 DOORS OF HORRORS
11 November 2015 [Read...]
7 Things About The Very Prolific Malaysian Filmmaker James Lee
23 May 2014 [Read...]
Crazy Filmmaker James Lee, And His Serious Thoughts On How
To Survive In The Film Industry
2014 [Read...]
Hollywood Reporter: Malaysian Filmmaker James Lee Launches
YouTube Omnibus '3 Doors of Horrors'
8 August 2013 [Read...]
The Edge: Filmmaker with a difference
23 October 2012 [Read...]
Busan 2012: Director James Lee on His Latest Project, 'If It’s Not Now Then When?'
06 October 2012 [Read...]
She's Not There
07 December 2007 [Read...]
Discussion With James Lee On The DV Film Making In Malaysia
25 May 2007 [Read...]
我和大馬導演4～《李添興 我拍故我在》準
19 May 2007 [Read...]
Indie film-maker James Lee gets Special Focus at Film Festival
09 April 2007 [Read...]
Around the Beautiful Washing Machine
05 April 2007 [Read...]
In conversation with James Lee
30 April 2004 [Read...]