Lee Yong-ok
Historia
Yong Ok Lee is a Los Angeles-based production designer. She received her MFA in Production Design from the American Film Institute. She is originally from Seoul, South Korea, where she began her career in the fashion industry as a buyer and merchandiser for F&F before becoming a fashion editor for industry publication Fashion Biz. Her work in Korea include box office top 10 hits such as SEVEN DAYS, starring Yunjin Kim (Lost, Mistresses). Projects now take her across the United States, in addition to South Korea and China.
THE FAREWELL, starring Awkwafina, first screened at 2019 Sundance and went on to win Best Actress - Musical or Comedy at the 2020 Golden Globes along with another 30+ awards from around the world. An excerpt from The Hollywood Reporter:
“Cinematographer Anna Franquesa Solano and production designer Yong Ok Lee fill the widescreen frame with eye-catching visuals that never feel too studied.” - full review Her most recent work MINARI, starring Steven Yeun, won the Grand Jury Award and Audience Award at 2020 Sundance. An excerpt from IndieWire:
“Production designer Yong Ok Lee does a brilliant job of gradually filling the once empty trailer with a rich sense of personal history over the course of the film” - full review
Her other US credits include THEY (Cannes), DEAD WOMEN WALKING (Tribeca, Venice) and MARVELOUS AND THE BLACK HOLE (Tribeca) among many others.
Production Design
Dos amigas emprenden un viaje por carretera lleno de obstáculos.
Production Design
Sammy es una niña de 13 años que lucha para superar la muerte de su madre. Tras ser pillada destrozando uno de los lavabos de su colegio, su padre, cansado de su comportamiento, decide inscribirla en un campamento de verano. Si vuelve a tener problemas, le asegura, será enviada a un correccional de jóvenes delincuentes. Tras saltarse su primera clase, Sammy conoce a Margot, una maga un tanto arisca que la obliga a convertirse en su asistente para un espectáculo. A partir de este momento, surge una amistad que cambiará para siempre la vida de ambas.
Production Design
Amanda y su hija viven una vida tranquila en una granja estadounidense, pero cuando los restos de su madre separada llegan de Corea, Amanda se ve atormentada por el miedo de convertirse en su propia madre.
Production Design
En la década de 1980, durante la presidencia de Reagan, una familia de emigrantes surcoreanos en EE.UU. decide instalarse en Arkansas, tras abandonar California. Trabajan sexando pollos, pero el sueño del padre es instalarse como granjero y cultivar verduras para mercado coreano estadounidense. La madre, sin embargo, preferiría vivir en un ciudad, cerca de un hospital, pues el hijo menor, David, está enfermo del corazón.
Production Design
A Chinese New Year legend reimagined as a contemporary coming-of-age story.
Production Design
Sunny, a young Asian American woman with anger management issues, returns home to the San Gabriel Valley seeking respite from her recent career failures - but a simple grocery shopping trip with her mother may prove more than she can handle.
Production Design
A gritty realistic story about a young film school student from middle-class India who's forced to drop out to support his family while staying in the United States as an undocumented worker.
Production Design
Tras descubrir que su querida matriarca padece un cancer de pulmón terminal, su familia decide no contárselo, convocando una reunión familiar en China a la que se espera que acudan todos los miembros que la han conocido a lo largo de su vida. Aunque los padres de Billi, que viven plácidamente en la ciudad de Nueva York, se niegan a participar en lo que para ellos es una farsa, su joven y cabezota hija pone rumbo a China para poder despedirse de su abuela y, de paso, volver a forjar los vínculos perdidos con su familia a causa de la distancia.
Production Design
J is in their early teens and lives in the countryside. J has been diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder, goes by the selected pronoun “they”, and takes hormone blockers to suspend puberty. While J’s parents are away, their older sister and her Iranian boyfriend are assigned the duties of house-sitting and looking after J.
Production Design
A disillusioned demon hunter considers leaving the field, but on the insistence of his more eager partner, agrees to take on one more case that could change his life forever.
Production Design
Un peligroso virus se ha propagado por todo el planeta. Con más infectados que no infectados, la humanidad corre un grave peligro. De momento está perdiendo la lucha por la supervivencia y su única esperanza es encontrar una cura y contener a los infectados. Lauren es una doctora que, tras la caída de Nueva York, se va Los Ángeles para encabezar un equipo que rescate a los supervivientes no infectados. Con sus trajes anti-contaminación equipados con cámaras que permiten investigar la situación, emprenden su misión. Pero nada podía prepararlos para lo que van a encontrar
Set Decoration
Un soldado fuera de la ley se ve inmerso en una lucha sin cuartel con un sheriff corrupto, sus obedientes ayudantes y un peligroso cartel de la droga con el fin de proteger a su hermana y su hija pequeña.
Production Design
After teleporting into Texas illegally, a young man from Mexico stands trial for murder.
Production Design
An elderly Chinese immigrant's cultural ignorance gets him in irreversible trouble in a public restroom. Despite his harmless intentions, he struggles with his son and the legal system to make the context of his behavior understood.
Set Dresser
Wild Horses tells the story of Mills, an established LA photographer, who returns to her native Nevada following an urgent call from her grandmother informing her that a band of wild horses close to their hearts, faces government roundup. In this story, that spans just one day, cruelty, courage, love and memory collide as two generations of women bear witness to the brutality common to wild horse roundups in the American West. Mills is exposed to a complex issue and follows her heart, choosing to ignore the consequences.
Art Direction
Cho-In fue un niño tremendamente desgraciado, lisiado de una pierna y víctima de malos tratos, lo que le generó un odio y un desprecio enormes por el resto de sus congéneres. Pero Cho-In también guarda un secreto, ya que es capaz de controlar la mente de los demás con tan solo una mirada. Un día, ya adulto, se topa con Kyu-nam al intentar atracar la casa de empeños donde este trabaja, descubriendo así al único hombre que parece ser inmune a sus poderes.
Art Direction
A young man finds out that he is living a completely identical life to another man who lived decades ago. And when his wife is murdered the same way as the previous man's, he decides to dig into the older case to find clues about who was the murderer this time.
Art Direction
Nineteen year old Hyun Woo is thrilled when he meets his new art teacher Seon Ah, who happens to be his longtime boyhood crush. The two first met when Seon Ah was teaching as an assistant at Hyun Woo's middle school and ever since, Hyun Woo has held a special place in his heart for his 27-year-old teacher. One day, Seon Ah gets into trouble after being caught smoking in a classroom by a fellow teacher. But when Hyun Woo readily takes the blame for her misdeed, the two become closer than ever. Trapped in a relationship that has become boring, Seon Ah finds Hyun Woo's innocence and raw passion irresistible. As love between the two takes center-stage, reason and morality took the backseat.
Art Direction
Un exitoso abogado se ve obligado, para salvar a su hija, a defender la inocencia de un hombre que se enfrenta a la pena de muerte.
Art Direction
A miserly father and his clever yet immature son live emotionally impoverished lives together. That life is interrupted when a beautiful widow moves in as a tenant. A battle between father and son to win the widow’s heart begins. No concession, No scruples, No rules.
Art Direction
Five strangers, each with his own special talents, are recruited by the mysterious 'X'. They do not know why they are brought together, but nonetheless agree to a series of potentially lucrative schemes. A planned bank robbery goes awry when a minor mistake leads to a hostage situation. The robbery is orchestrated by Hwan. When Hwan turns up dead at the designated meeting spot, the remaining men realize something is seriously wrong, and suspicion flares.
