Lee Yong-ok
História
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
A Russ Meyer-inspired action sex comedy centered on a party girl who takes a trip from Philadelphia to Tallahassee with her buttoned-down friend. As they cruise the bars they find themselves mixed up in a series of misadventures involving a severed head in a hatbox, a bitter ex-girlfriend, a mystery briefcase, and an evil senator.
Production Design
A teenage delinquent befriends a surly magician who helps her navigate her inner demons and dysfunctional family with sleight of hand magic.
Production Design
Amanda e sua filha vivem uma vida tranquila em uma fazenda americana, mas quando os restos mortais de sua mãe, com quem não tinha muito contato, chegam da Coréia, Amanda fica assombrada pelas memórias e o medo de se transformar em sua própria mãe.
Production Design
Uma família coreano-americana se muda para uma fazenda no Arkansas em busca de seu próprio sonho americano. Em meio aos desafios dessa nova vida, eles descobrem a inegável resiliência da família e o que realmente faz um lar.
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
Billi, uma forte mulher chinesa-americana, retorna à China quando sua amada avó recebe um diagnóstico terminal. Billi luta com a decisão de sua família de manter a avó no escuro sobre sua própria doença, enquanto todos organizam um casamento improvisado, uma desculpa, para ver a avó uma última vez.
Production Design
J (Rhys Fehrenbacher) vive com os pais no interior e foi diagnostico com transtorno de identidade de gênero, e agora passa seus dias entre a rotina e os remédios para o controle de sua puberdade. Enquanto seus pais estão fora, sua irmã mais velha e o noivo dela assumem as funções da paternidade e lhe dão suporte. Através de uma situação familiar precária, J vê a vida adulta chegar.
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
Um vírus zumbi está dizimando a população e um grupo de cientistas precisa sair a campo para resgatar aquelas que ainda não foram contaminadas. A busca pela cura gera uma corrida contra o tempo, enquanto na rua todos lutam para sobreviver aos ataques de zumbis.
Set Decoration
O soldado Colton MacReady se desvia do caminho da lei e se torna um criminoso. Seus envolvimentos o colocam no caminho de um perigosíssimo cartel comandado pelo Xerife Jasper Calloway e seus agentes corrompidos, fazendo com que ele precise salvar a sobrinha raptada e proteger os membros de sua família - sua irmã e sua filha - de se tornarem os próximos alvos da ação dos outros bandidos.
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
Depois de perder o emprego em um depósito de sucata de metal, Kyu-Nam ( Ko Su ) encontra um novo emprego em uma pequena loja de penhores chamada Utopia. Ele é imediatamente atraído para a atmosfera familiar na Utopia, trabalhando com seu novo chefe Jung-Sik ( Byeon Hie-bong ) e filha do chefe Young-Sook ( Jung Eun Chae- ). Infelizmente para Kyu-Nam, seu momento de felicidade só será passageira.
Cho-In ( Gang Dong-Won ) viveu uma infância brutal. Ele teve que usar uma prótese de perna desde criança idade, cresceu com um pai abusivo e vivia com uma mãe que em um ponto tentou matar seu próprio filho para fora do desespero. Cho-In também possui um dom sobrenatural. Ele pode controlar a mente das outras pessoas quando elas estão dentro de seu campo de visão.
(Fonte: http://subarashiis.tumblr.com/post/117711070530/kmovie-haunters)
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
A successful lawyer who, in order to save her daughter, is pressured into defending the innocence of a man slated to receive the death penalty.
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
Cinco criminosos, que não se conhecem, são recrutados para roubar um banco. Ao realizar o trabalho, tudo corre como previsto até que encontram o corpo de um deles incinerado e percebem que existe algo macabro por trás do serviço.
