Sing J. Lee | Writer/Director

Sing J. Lee | Writer/Director

(He/Him)

Sing J. Lee is an award-winning writer, director of Hong Kong descent, born in Manchester, UK. With a background in music, illustration, and animation, his early short films garnered awards and nominations including BBC's Best of the North and his work in the music video and commercial space have been awarded and recognised by Cannes Lions, Clios, MTV VMAs, and BRIT Awards.  

Prevalent across his body of personal work, is a distinct cultivation of visual language and exploration within the themes of duality through the human condition. 

In 2019, Lee was selected as Variety's Top Ten Storytellers to Watch. At the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Lee received the US Dramatic Director Award for his directorial debut The Accidental Getaway Driver. 

In his own words... 

"Having grown up in Wrexham, UK, shaped in part by Kitchen Sink and the British New Wave, I witnessed and learnt from these films that humanised and poeticised society’s marginalised - both counter-cultural cinematic movements having been championed early on by BAFTA. I join this year’s Breakthrough fellows recalling these predecessors, honoured to have the space to continue these cinematic explorations, with the support of BAFTA’s international patronage, history and network." 

Sings’s breakthrough credit is the feature film The Accidental Getaway Driver 

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