Graham Lee

Director, Editor, Producer and Screenwriter

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About Graham

My Semi-Poetic Schpeil

The deepest and most consistent love in my life has been cinema. My earliest memory is being parked in front of the tube as an infant, watching my first movie, The Wizard of Oz. Although I didn’t have language or concepts, it spoke to me. My consciousness exploded into being as I was whisked away to a place that was strange yet somehow familiar. There was a profound mystery at the center of that film that I was intensely drawn to. Ever since I heard the siren call of Lady Cinema that day, I have walked a circuitous path in pursuit of that mystery with no compass or roadmap other than the ones written in the stars.

Biographical Snippet

Graham Lee grew up in a whirlpool of Northern California countercultures. His childhood was spent backstage at Grateful Dead concerts, in clown camps, and roaming the eclectic streets of Santa Cruz. Being the perpetual new kid on the block, Graham found his home in his imagination, approaching the world like an astronaut exploring a new planet and interpreting it through the lens of his camera.

“I truly believe Graham Lee was born to make film,” said David Moessinger, executive producer of Walker, Texas Ranger.

“With him, it’s a compulsion. If he were locked in solitary confinement and given a camera, he’d do an epic about cockroaches.”

Lee wrote and directed an ultra-low-budget feature indie feature, All Roads Lead to Occidental, which premiered at the Sacramento International Film Festival in 2014. His short film Reflections was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Playhouse West Film Festival. Three of his short films, Vengeance is a Laugh (2012), Whitmore (2012), and Counterpart (2013), were winners at the MMTB Director’s Challenge. In addition, Graham has worked as a screenwriter for Standing Bear Productions, where he collaborated with Afghan author Hamid Naweed on adapting his short story, Let’s Walk Together, into a feature-length war drama.

Gender:
Male

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Andy Warhol Must Die! Budget: $5M - $10M | Fantasy ⋄ Comedy DICK DICKMAN, a frustrated, aging, ultra-MAGA gun nut with a deep love of fine art and a lifelong vendetta against Andy Warhol, gets the chance of a lifetime when a group of rich geriatric hippies empowers him to go back in time and assassinate Warhol before he has a chance to wreak havoc on their subculture. Concept Trailer:
Reno Drifters Budget: $1M - $5M | Independent ⋄ Drama An inventor who reverse-engineered alien technology commits suicide, linking the fates of his estranged son and an aspiring country-western musician possessed by a bizarre extraterrestrial prophecy. The two misfits find solace in the bond that forms between them, which is put to the test by unfinished business from their pasts.

Credits

Reflections (2015 - 2016)
Film (short) by Out of This World Pictures (Drama and Sci-Fi) Director/Co-Writer Aspiring actress Flo Ming lives in the shadow of 'It Girl' Yolanda Rose until she visits a mystical plastic surgeon who gives her the worst thing imaginable: everything she always wanted.
Wanderers (2015)
Film (short) by Out of This World Pictures (Drama) Writer/Director A young woman takes refuge in the rainy desert to scatter her brother's ashes when she has a fateful encounter with a vagabond song-and-dance man.
All Roads Lead to Occidental (2011 - 2014)
Film by Out of This World Pictures Writer/Director A college boy rekindles the flame of a high school romance with a local convenience store clerk over summer break and falls into a web of crime and jealousy. The girl is married to a drug-peddling cop and entrapped by a ruthless FBI agent with the goods on her husband.
Counterpart (2013)
Film (short) by MMTB (Sci-Fi) Director/Co-Writer A lowly blue-collar astronaut garbage man crosses into a parallel dimension where he meets his counterpart and discovers the World and his life as it might have been.
Whitmore (2012)
Film (short) by MMTB Writer/Director An embittered and heartbroken has-been arthouse filmmaker reconnects with his passion with the guidance of his childhood self.
Vengeance is a Laugh (2011)
Film (short) by MMTB Writer/Director A man sets out to exact revenge on a clown who sent his life on a dark path through a traumatic childhood incident.

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Awards

Quarterfinalist, Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition
(2024)
Quarterfinalist, CineStory Foundation - CineStory Feature Retreat and Fellowship
(2024)
Quarterfinalist, Chicago Screenplay Awards
(2024)
Quarterfinalist, Scriptation Showcase - Features + Shorts Category
(2024)
Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards
(2023)
ScriptReader.AI Hall of Fame "Best in Originality"
(2023)
Quarterfinalist, Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition
(2022)
Semifinalist, Scriptation Showcase - Features + Shorts Category
(2021)
Quarterfinalist, CineStory Foundation - CineStory Feature Retreat and Fellowship
(2020)

Education

University of California - San Diego