Justin S. Lee is a Taiwanese American writer/director and Film Independent Fellow. He grew up bouncing between Philadelphia and Taipei, experimenting in many different storytelling mediums before finding his passion for film and television. He made movies on the side while studying business at UC Berkeley, and spent a year between schools working in the film industry before enrolling at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. During his training there, ​his short film Drone was nominated for a Student Academy Award, and he co-directed the feature film Actors Anonymous, starring Oscar-nominated actors Eric Roberts and James Franco.

 

He's also an alum of Paramount Television's Emerging Directors Program, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's content accelerator Imagine Impact, Film Independent's Episodic Lab, where he was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation development grant, and Dan Lin's Rideback Rise Circle.

 

His professional work includes director shadowing on the Apple TV+ series Home Before Dark, as well as writing for Netflix's live-action television series Resident Evil. He is currently packaging his feature film debut as a writer/director, which has Rise Entertainment Group, Daniel Dae Kim's production company 3AD, Jess Maldaner, and Brian Yang attached to produce.