Chris Chan Lee is an American filmmaker. After graduating from the

USC School of Cinematic Arts The USC School of Cinematic Arts is an academic unit of the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles. With a history that dates to the first years of Sound film, talkies, the school descends from America's first ...

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, Lee wrote/directed ''

Yellow Yellow is the color between green and orange on the spectrum of light. It is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 575585 nm. It is a primary color in subtractive color systems, used in painting or color printing. In t ...

'', an independently financed feature film about the harrowing grad night of eight Korean-American teens in Los Angeles that culminates in a violent crime that will forever change their lives. ''Yellow'' was invited to over a dozen film festivals, including the Slamdance Dramatic Competition 1998, Singapore International 1998, and the Los Angeles Film Festival 1997. The film won the 1999 Golden Ring Award for Best Asian American Independent Film. In 2002 Chris completed a one-year stint in Singapore directing television at MediaCorp Studios for English-language primetime TV series. In 2003, Lee was selected as one of three filmmakers for the Fast Track program sponsored by ''Filmmaker Magazine'' and the IFP Los Angeles Film Festival for his latest film, '' Undoing''. The movie, a character-driven neo-noir story set in Los Angeles, stars

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, Russell Wong,

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and

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. It premiered at the

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in July 2006. Lee has also directed music videos for Asian American artists Seam and

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(such as "Galaxies: The Next Level"), which have aired on NTV, MTV, BET and more outlets. Lee has also directed the most recent music video featuring a reunion of the

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or Scott "Chops" Jung's "Strength in Numbers" project, for a track entitled "Keep On" featuring vocals from Los Angeles-based artist Ann One. Lee is considered to be a pioneer in making films about Asian Americans.

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Undoing: Official Site
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