Quentin Lee
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Quentin 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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Brash Boys Club, one-night of stand-up, gay comedy featuring three diverse comedians each doing a half-hour set.
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An apocalyptic science fiction comedy told entirely through webchat sessions about a group of Asian-American friends living through an invasion by an alien virus now.
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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!
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Gay Hollywood Dad chronicles the first six months of single gay dad Quentin Lee juggling between raising his newborn baby by himself and making his means as an acclaimed independent filmmaker in Hollywood.
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The Unbidden is a thriller about four women confronted by a mysterious young man who knows a dark secret from their past.
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The Unbidden is a thriller about four women confronted by a mysterious young man who knows a dark secret from their past.
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The Unbidden is a thriller about four women confronted by a mysterious young man who knows a dark secret from their past.
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Two young siblings try to get their lesbian moms married before Proposition 8 passes in California.
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A sexy, delightful short film about a mother & daughter who discover each other's secrets through a comedy of errors, and learn to accept themselves and each other.
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Story of a neglected teen with mild Asperger’s syndrome whose life is changed forever when tragedy hits his family.
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An unexpected day in the live of a vlogger from Vancouver.
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An unexpected day in the live of a vlogger from Vancouver.
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An unexpected day in the live of a vlogger from Vancouver.
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An unexpected day in the live of a vlogger from Vancouver.
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Little Love is a ten minute short that explores the complications of friendship and relationships. Set in contemporary Los Angeles.
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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.
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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.
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Kicked out of his house because he's gay, Ethan Mao returns home to steal and ends up holding his family hostage on a fateful Thanksgiving Day.
Producer
Man in relationship connects with another man and tries to make love-triangle work.
Writer
Man in relationship connects with another man and tries to make love-triangle work.
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Man in relationship connects with another man and tries to make love-triangle work.
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Freshman Year brings a romance between two very different young men.
Editor
A married woman, who's been getting seductive phone calls from a lesbian, and a man, who believes he might be a werewolf, are about to find out who they deep down really are.
Producer
A married woman, who's been getting seductive phone calls from a lesbian, and a man, who believes he might be a werewolf, are about to find out who they deep down really are.
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A married woman, who's been getting seductive phone calls from a lesbian, and a man, who believes he might be a werewolf, are about to find out who they deep down really are.
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A married woman, who's been getting seductive phone calls from a lesbian, and a man, who believes he might be a werewolf, are about to find out who they deep down really are.
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A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.
Writer
A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.
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A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.
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A hyper-short flick about two gay Asian men and a phantasmatic vagina.
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A playful narrative that explores a queer menage-a-trois between a gay Chinese boy, a bisexual half-white-half-Asian boy, and a straight Korean girl.
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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.
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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.
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Nathan Lee, an AAPI teenager, finds out that he has brain cancer right before he turns 18 and vows to live the remains of his life with passion… And refuses to die a virgin. Knowing that his gay best friend, Dash, wants to become a filmmaker, Nathan offers himself as a documentary subject to Dash, who is also in love with Nathan. Nathan and Dash decide to document as much of his remaining life as possible.
