Jay Lee

Jay Lee is a quadruple threat in Hollywood with extensive experience as a Writer, Director, Cinematographer and Editor. As a director, Jay Lee helmed the feature narrative film Zombie Strippers! (which he also wrote and shot) and Noon Blue Apples (which he also wrote and edited) an official selection of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and winner of Best Ensemble Cast at Method Fest and Best Picture at the Westwood International Film Festival, and the campy horror feature, The Slaughter. He has also directed (as well as served as cinematographer and editor) the non-buget, very independent film The Roads Can Dance and the documentary feature film Jamaica: Land of Wood and Water both featured at the IFFM. Recently he has also directed, as well as wrote, photographed and edited, the short film The Affairs of God (SF Indie Film Fest), in addition to the short Snapshot of Molly and Her Man based on the New York Stage Play. As a cinematographer he shot the short On the Rocks and the film portions of Black Men, a feature-length documentary. As an editor he has edited the feature film Season of Youth (Method Fest, award winner at Boston International Film Festival, For Lauderdale Film Festival, and It Had to be Made Film Festival) as well as worked for Disney/Buena Vista Television, Weiss, Stagliano & Partners Advertising, The Montel Williams Show (for Paramount Television) and Sylvia Browne’s pay-per-view specials. From 1990-1998, he served as a location manager on major Hollywood motion pictures, including Godzilla (Sony Pictures 1998; Starring Matthew Broderick) and 187 (Warner Brothers, 1997; starring Samuel L. Jackson). His photography has been published in the collections Life Lesson and Reflections and A Dozen Ways to Sunday. Mr. Lee studied at USC Film School.