Andrew Undi Lee
Andrew Undi Lee
TURN ABOUT ENTERTAINMENT Writer/ Director/ Producer
Andrew Undi Lee is a queer, Australian-born Korean director, writer, producer and production designer. Recipient of the AFTRS Kenneth B Myer Award for Exceptional Talent and the Young Australian Korean Filmmaker Award from the Korean Consulate of Australia. His Film and TV writing credits include MELON GRAB (Screen Australia’s Hot Shots), TROPPO (ABC) , BORN TO SPY (ABC) and the Korean Australian horror series, NIGHT BLOOMERS
(SBS) - a show he created, wrote, produced and directed through the SBS / NITV & Screen Australia’s Digital Originals Initiative. Andrew Undi Lee was also the Korean consultant for THE NEWSREADER (ABC) and AFTER THE VERDICT (9NETWORK). Most recently, he and four other writers have been commissioned to write a feature screen play with Co-Curious and the Powerhouse Museum Parramatta, while also being a participant writer in the NETFLIX Grow Creative AUS & NZ writer’s lab. Andrew is currently working with Picking Scabs / See Saw Films as the Writer's Assistant for Samantha Strauss.
(SBS) - a show he created, wrote, produced and directed through the SBS / NITV & Screen Australia’s Digital Originals Initiative. Andrew Undi Lee was also the Korean consultant for THE NEWSREADER (ABC) and AFTER THE VERDICT (9NETWORK). Most recently, he and four other writers have been commissioned to write a feature screen play with Co-Curious and the Powerhouse Museum Parramatta, while also being a participant writer in the NETFLIX Grow Creative AUS & NZ writer’s lab. Andrew is currently working with Picking Scabs / See Saw Films as the Writer's Assistant for Samantha Strauss.
Related Sessions
New Visions: The Future of Diaspora Storytelling
TUE, OCT 17, 3:30 PM
Conference
There’s been a lot of focus on improving ‘diversity’ on and off screen in recent years, and with it, pressure for culturally diverse filmmakers to speak for their communities and represent migrant stories in certain ways. In this panel we look to the future, exploring the work of three Western Sydney filmmakers who are finding ways to break out of that model, bringing new, authentically authored stories to national and international audiences.
Join producer Sheila Jayadev, writer/director Andrew Undi Lee and writer/actor Randa Sayed in a discussion with Sheila Ngoc Pham about the development process, making of and reception to recent projects including new SBS horror anthology NIGHT BLOOMERS, award winning feature film HERE OUT WEST, and a new Untitled collaboration with the Powerhouse.
How are they finding new ways to authentically tell their stories to Australian and international screen audiences? How can we continue to push expectations of what a ‘migrant story’ is? What are the opportunities and challenges of working with diaspora communities? How is (and isn’t) the industry supporting them to tell stories the way they want to? And what is it that makes Western Sydney storytelling unique?
