Kevin Lee

Kevin L. Lee is an Asian-American film producer, screenwriter, director, and critic based in New York City. He has loved movies ever since he could read and over the years has brought that passion with him across the country, from the Bay Area to Austin, TX, to New York City.

A champion of the creative process, Kevin has consulted, written, and produced several short films from development to principal photography to festival premiere. He has worked in film and TV development with production companies and mainstream studios, where he gave extensive creative and logistical feedback to submitted screenplays.

He produced Put to Sleep, a short film drama that won the 2024 Indie Short Fest award for Best Student Short and became a finalist at the ScreenCraft Writing Competition of 2023. He also produced Homesick, which screened at the Oscar-qualifying Atlanta Film Festival 2023, as well as Eli, Briefly, which won the prestigious The Future of Film Is Female Award. He also wrote and directed Aly, a horror romantic comedy that screened at the New York Shorts International Film Festival, the El Paso Film Festival, the Sherman Oaks Film Festival, and the EB Indie Film Festival 2024, where it won Best Acting and Best Short Film.

With over 12 years of marketing and writing experience in film criticism and journalism, Kevin is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic and has written hundreds of reviews for publications like Awards Watch, Film Inquiry, and That Shelf, and has interviewed award-winning filmmakers around the world, including Academy Award winner Ke Huy Quan, Academy Award winner Asghar Farhadi, Cannes and BAFTA winner Park Chan-wook, Academy Award nominee Stephanie Hsu, and many more. He has also been covered by major outlets including BBC and NBC on various topics in the film landscape.

He holds an MFA in Creative Producing from the Columbia University School of the Arts and a BA in English from the University of Texas at Austin.