Name Danny Lee | ||
Danny Lee is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter from Los Angeles, California.
Career
Lee has directed and produced a variety of films. In 2005, Lee released his directorial debut at the AFI Fest with Rock Fresh, a documentary about graffiti artists taking their subversive art into the mainstream, which Variety singled out as one of the films to watch.
In 2010, Lee created, wrote and directed The Clinic, a Hulu comedy series about a marijuana dispensary. Lee directed Road To Brooklyn, a documentary series executive produced by Jay-Z, which chronicled the story of the Brooklyn Nets relocating from New Jersey to Brooklyn; the series was a 2013 Webby Awards honoree. He directed the documentaries Midnight in Juarez and Skate or Die, the latter of which was inducted into the Smithsonian Institution; he also directed Roll on Rockaway, which was a 2014 Webby Awards honoree. Lee has also directed the Nissan-branded ESPN series With Dad featuring Clay Matthews Jr., which won the 2015 Cynopsis Best Branded Web Series award. His television series, After The Raves, which documents the history of dance music with Tommie Sunshine, is currently airing on Red Bull TV. Lee also directed the 30 for 30 documentary Friedman’s Shoes for ESPN, about the storied shoe store in Atlanta. Lee is working on Public Disturbance, a feature comedy he directed and produced for Lionsgate that stars Mike Tyson, Skyler Samuels, Amber Stevens West, Bobby Lee, Dillon Francis, and The Janoskians.
Lee was featured in Paper Magazine's March 2007 Beautiful People issue. In 2008, the Korean Film Council named Lee the recipient of the Best Project Award, along with a cash grant for his feature film script, Winter War. Lee is the principal of production company Calico.