Lee Isaac Chung
1978 (46 лет)In 2023, Chung directed an episode of The Mandalorian, and in 2024, he directed the disaster film Twisters.
Born in Denver to a South Korean family, Chung lived briefly in Atlanta before moving to a farm in Lincoln, Arkansas, where he attended Lincoln High School. He studied biology at Yale University but switched to filmmaking after being exposed to world cinema. He later attended graduate school for filmmaking at the University of Utah.
Chung is married to Valerie Chu, whom he met at Yale, and they have a daughter.
I Have Seen My Last Born
Lee Isaac Chung, Samuel Gray Anderson
John Kwezi
'I Have Seen My Last Born' is about Rwanda in transition from its difficult and violent past towards development, seen through the life of a man who juggles the roles of father and a son, between the city and the village.
I Have Seen My Last Born
Minari
Lee Isaac Chung
Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
Minari
Twisters
Lee Isaac Chung
Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell
As storm season intensifies, the paths of former storm chaser Kate Carter and reckless social-media superstar Tyler Owens collide when terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed. The pair and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives. Kate Carter works in Oklahoma with storm chasers Javi, Addy, Praveen, and her boyfriend, Jeb. Alongside a Dorothy V doppler, the team launches barrels of sodium polyacrylate beads into a tornado in hopes of reducing its intensity and securing funding for further research. However, the crew is caught in the middle as it grows into an EF5. Addy, Praveen, and Jeb are killed, while Kate and Javi survive.
Twisters
Lucky Life
Lee Isaac Chung
Daniel O'Keefe, Megan McKenna
A group of friends travels to the beach to encourage Jason, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. The journey is rooted in nostalgia and desire for a meaningful farewell, although the friends avoid the subject of Jason's illness. Some time later, as Mark and Karen plan to have a child, the beach trip lingers as a haunting memory in their new phase of life... Inspired by the poetry of Gerald Stern.
Lucky Life
Abigail Harm
Lee Isaac Chung
Amanda Plummer, Will Patton
Abigail Harm is a woman living in a fictionalized New York City, who, after being granted a wish by a strange visitor, asks for love and learns of a creature who might provide it. Inspired by the Korean folktale "The Woodcutter and the Nymph.
Abigail Harm
