Quentin Lee

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Quentin Lee

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Quentin Lee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.                    

Acting credits

Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee poster
4.9

In 1973, martial arts great Bruce Lee died, his final film, Game of Death, left unfinished. With the public hungry for more Lee, movie execs decide to find a replacement. This outrageous satire looks at the entire process, from the oddball candidates to the greed and racial motivations that drive the final decision. There's big business in the movies, and Finishing the Game skewers it with an eye for '70s detail.

Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee

2007

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NR

WW II: In August of 1945, after the US had dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan, the Japanese emperor, Emperor Hirohito, prepared his nation for unconditional surrender. But what he does not know is that there is a military faction plotting to keep fighting the war. How close did the faction get to changing World History?

24 Hours: The Japanese Surrender

2025

Acting in the Closet poster
1.0

In front of a live studio audience, host David C. Jones interviews three different panels of film industry professionals about the trials and tribulations for proudly queer and out actors.

Acting in the Closet

2021

To Ride a Cow poster
4.0

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.

To Ride a Cow

1992

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3.7

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.

Anxiety of Inexpression and the Otherness Machine

1992

Behind the camera

White Frog poster
5.8

When Nick, who has Asperger's syndrome, struggles to carry on after the death of his brother Chaz, Chaz's best friend Randy takes Nick under his wing.

White Frog

2013

Ethan Mao poster
4.8

After being kicked out of his house for being gay, Ethan returns home to steal and ends up holding his family hostage on a fateful Thanksgiving Day.

Ethan Mao

2004

Ethan Mao poster
4.8

After being kicked out of his house for being gay, Ethan returns home to steal and ends up holding his family hostage on a fateful Thanksgiving Day.

Ethan Mao

2004

Laugh Proud poster
NR

Nine diverse LGBTQ+ comics each perform a short set connected by a hostess with the mostest in an orgiastic one-night stand starring fresh comics to veteran comic Jason Stuart and the world's first intersex comic 7G.

Laugh Proud

2024

Laugh Proud poster
NR

Nine diverse LGBTQ+ comics each perform a short set connected by a hostess with the mostest in an orgiastic one-night stand starring fresh comics to veteran comic Jason Stuart and the world's first intersex comic 7G.

Laugh Proud

2024

Rez Comedy poster
NR

Indigenous stand-up comedians mine life under colonization for spiky humour.

Rez Comedy

2024

Flow poster
7.7

A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.

Flow

1996

Flow poster
7.7

A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.

Flow

1996

Flow poster
7.7

A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.

Flow

1996

Drift poster
4.5

A gay man breaks up with his lover after meeting a college student at a party.

Drift

2000

Drift poster
4.5

A gay man breaks up with his lover after meeting a college student at a party.

Drift

2000

Drift poster
4.5

A gay man breaks up with his lover after meeting a college student at a party.

Drift

2000

Searching for Anna May Wong poster
NR

With the help of popular movie stars, this documentary tells the coming-of-age story of a young Asian-American actress navigating the convoluted and narrow paths of Hollywood.

Searching for Anna May Wong

2020

Fall 1990 poster
4.0

Freshman Year brings a romance between two very different young men.

Fall 1990

1994

Comisery poster
NR

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.

Comisery

2020

The People I've Slept With poster
4.5

A sex-addicted woman who finds herself with an unplanned pregnancy and needs to figure out who the baby daddy is.

The People I've Slept With

2009

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NR

An international Yale graduate student falls for a captivating young woman who invites him to her family's Thanksgiving-only to discover he's become entangled in a chilling con that spirals into unimaginable horror.

The Unlucky

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NR

An international Yale graduate student falls for a captivating young woman who invites him to her family's Thanksgiving-only to discover he's become entangled in a chilling con that spirals into unimaginable horror.

The Unlucky

No artwork available
NR

An international Yale graduate student falls for a captivating young woman who invites him to her family's Thanksgiving-only to discover he's become entangled in a chilling con that spirals into unimaginable horror.

The Unlucky

No artwork available
NR

A hyper-short flick about two gay Asian men and a phantasmatic vagina.

Hysterio Passio

1994

The Way You Dance poster
NR

A dancer returns home to care for his estranged father with terminal cancer and finding redemption, healing, and purpose by mentoring a diverse community dance class – including a transgender teen struggling to live authentically.

The Way You Dance

The Way You Dance poster
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A dancer returns home to care for his estranged father with terminal cancer and finding redemption, healing, and purpose by mentoring a diverse community dance class – including a transgender teen struggling to live authentically.

The Way You Dance

The Way You Dance poster
NR

A dancer returns home to care for his estranged father with terminal cancer and finding redemption, healing, and purpose by mentoring a diverse community dance class – including a transgender teen struggling to live authentically.

The Way You Dance

The Unbidden poster
3.6

Four women are confronted by a mysterious young man who knows a dark secret from their past.

The Unbidden

2016