Quentin Lee
2021Quentin Lee (b. 1971, Hong Kong) is a film writer and director. He is most notable for Ethan Mao (2004), Drift (2000), Flow (1996), and the film short To Ride a Cow (1993). Lee also co-directed Shopping For Fangs (1997) with Justin Lin, known for his controversial film Better Luck Tomorrow (2002). Lee's films are noticeable for containing male lead characters who are Asian and gay, two minority groups generally not seen as lead characters in mainstream Hollywood films.
Born in Hong Kong, Lee immigrated to Montreal, Canada, when he was 16. He attended UC Berkeley, Yale University and UCLA for his B.A. in English, M.A. in English and M.F.A. in Film Directing respectively.
Lee founded Margin Films in 1996 as a production company; Margin Films moved into film distribution starting with the film Bugis Street.
Lee's first foray into documentary film, 0506HK (2007), premiered July 2007 at the Vancouver International Film Centre Hong Kong Stories film series, commemorating the 10-year anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China. The film explored his personal and political perspectives on whether to return to Hong Kong, as well as the evolving cultural and social climate, through interviews with family members and friends living and working in both Hong Kong and Los Angeles.
In October 2009 Lee's graphic novel Campus Ghost Story, created in collaboration with artist John Hahn was published by Fresh Fear, an imprint of Margin Films.
Lee's film The People I've Slept With premiered at the 2009 Hawaii International Film Festival in North America, internationally at the 2009 São Paulo International Film Festival, the 2010 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival in Asia, and the 2010 Hamburg Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in Europe.
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Kim McVicar: Please Notice Me
Quentin Lee
Kimberly McVicar
Comedian and former backup dancer Kim McVicar riffs about crawling for rappers, pranking her brother in prison, and getting hit on at her estranged father's funeral. And that's not all - this comedy special has something no one else has - dance breaks!
Kim McVicar: Please Notice Me
Anxiety of Inexpression and the Otherness Machine
Quentin Lee
Quentin Lee
Director Quentin Lee shoots a pseudo-documentary about himself, his family, friends, and his lover, in an experimental pastiche of genres. As if in retaliation to the stern image, each sequence is ruptured by self-conscious meditations on the construction of ethnicity and the self within Western culture.
Anxiety of Inexpression and the Otherness Machine
0506HK
Quentin Lee
Kam Kwok-Leung, Peter Chan
Quentin Lee returns to Hong Kong, where he was born and raised. As he explores his desire to move back there from Los Angeles, he interviews local artists, filmmakers, friends, and family about why they are in Hong Kong and why they choose to be there.
0506HK
The People I've Slept With
Quentin Lee
Karin Anna Cheung, Wilson Cruz
The People I've Slept With - a promiscuous woman who finds herself with an unplanned pregnancy and needs to figure out who the baby daddy is...NOW. Angela Yang loves sex. She loves it so much she needs to make baseball cards of her lovers to help her remember where she's been. She doesn't think twice about her lifestyle until she finds out that she's pregnant. Her gay best friend, Gabriel Lugo tells her to "take care of it," but her conservative sister, Juliet persuades Angela to get married to the baby's father and lead a "normal" life like her. Angela listens to her sister, chooses to keep the baby, and goes on a quest to find the identity of the father by any means necessary.
The People I've Slept With
