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Name
Lee Thean-jeen
Role
Director
Movies
Homecoming
Lee Thean-jeen (李天仁) is an award-winning director, screenwriter and television showrunner best known for the Singapore television drama series AlterAsians, The Singapore Short Story Project, The Pupil, Code Of Law, and Zero Calling.
He has also written or co-written, and directed, the feature films, Homecoming (笑着回家), Love...And Other Bad Habits (玩味爱情), Everybody's Business (人人有粪), and Bring Back the Dead (招魂).
Career
Born in Penang, Malaysia, Lee attended Penang Free School, then graduated with a summa cum laude in Broadcasting And Film from Boston University's College of Communication. He went to work for the then-Singapore Broadcasting Corporation, producing corporate videos, before leaving to become one of the founding members of Film Formations, a Singapore-based production company.
He is currently the Managing Director of Weiyu Films, a content-creation and production company founded by him.
His first drama series, AlterAsians (2000), an adaptation of short stories by Singaporean novelists into telemovies and shot on 16mm film, won several awards, including Best Single Drama or Telemovie at the Asian Television Awards 2000.
A follow-up series of short story adaptations, The Singapore Short Story Project, won the Asian Television Award in 2003 for Best Drama Series and again, in 2008, for Best Single Drama or Telemovie.
The Pupil, a legal drama which he co-created, executive-produced, wrote, and directed was well-received by local audiences and critics alike, winning two major awards at the 2010 Asian Television Awards: Best Actress In A Leading Role for Rebecca Lim and Best Actor In A Supporting Role for Lim Kay Tong.
Code Of Law, a drama series on the criminal justice system in Singapore, has entered its third season.
Zero Calling, a vigilante thriller based on an award-winning script by Lee, has entered its second season, after picking up a Best Actor award for its leading actor, Pierre Png, and a Silver Remi for Best TV Miniseries at the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival.
Lee was the first director to occupy Discovery Networks Asia's Documentary Director's Chair, a crossover programme for film and television filmmakers who have built a reputation for innovative, high-quality filmmaking to produce documentary work for Discovery Channel’s global network.
His first feature film, Homecoming (笑着回家), starring Jack Neo, Ah Niu, Afdlin Shauki and Rebecca Lim was one of the top-grossing local films in Singapore and Malaysia in 2011.
He has appeared on The Straits Times' Power List in Entertainment, a barometer of the top ten most influential people in the local media industry.
