WHO IS TRICIA LEE
BIO
Recognized on the 2020 & 2021 Black List, Tricia Lee is an AAPI female filmmaker who creates heart-breaking and heart-warming features with a sense of uplifting humor. Growing up in Toronto and fighting for her Green Card in order to step-up her career in Los Angeles, she tells stories from a Canadian perspective looking in at the American Dream and loves to explore ideas around belonging, voicelessness and shared humanity. GOOD CHANCE, her feature script being produced by Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way and Janet Yang was on the CAPE List, a top 50 finalist in The Academy Nicholl Fellowship, grand prize winner Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Screenplay Competition, top 14 finalist Universal Studios Writer's Program, winner Cinequest Best Feature Screenplay, finalist Black List x MACRO Fellowship and selected for the prestigious Producers Guild of America Power of Diversity Master Workshop. She is also a fellow of the SONY Diverse Writers Program. Lee has directed top talent like Eva Longoria (DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES), Simu Liu (Marvel's SHANG-CHI), Ingrid Rogers (BOSCH) and James Kyson (HEROES). She will be the showrunner and sole writer on 8 episodes of the animated anthology A BANQUET FOR HUNGRY GHOSTS produced by 108 Media. Tricia will be directing a William Hung (American Idol) biopic which she also wrote and is being produced by Don Handfield (The Founder), Tony and Tim Bui (won Sundance Grand Jury Prize & Audience Choice Award). Lee has directed 3 award-winning features including BLOOD HUNTERS, which sold to Hulu and was presented in Cannes by Frontieres and SILENT RETREAT, which was theatrically released across Canada and sold to NBC Universal’s Chiller Network.
AWARDS / RECOGNITION
The 2021 Black List (IDOL)
The 2020 Black List (GOOD CHANCE)
The CAPE List
The Academy Nicholl Fellowship - Top 50 Finalist
SONY TV Writers Fellowship
American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest - Winner
Cinequest Best Feature Screenplay - Winner
Athena List - Winner
WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Features - Winner
Sundance - Second Rounder
The Young & Hungry List
Outfest Screenplay Lab - Finalist
Nashville Screenplay - Finalist
Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay - Finalist
Page International Awards - Semifinalist
The BitchList - Top 5
Lena Waithe's Hello Lab - Finalist
The Black List Women In Film Residency - Semifinalist
Breaking Through The Lens - Finalist
LABS
Producers Guild of America Power of Diversity Master Workshop
Athena Screenwriting Lab
WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab
National Screen Institute TV Director's Bootcamp (Canada)
FAVORITE FILMS OF '21
Blue Bayou
CODA
Shang-Chi
BOOKS I'VE READ RECENTLY
The Visual Story by Bruce Block
Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferazzi
FILMS I WISH I MADE
Les Intouchables
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Short Term 12
The Greatest Showman
Ex Machina
Up In The Air
Moulin Rouge
Romeo + Juliet
Memento
Requiem For A Dream
Good Will Hunting
Billy Elliot
Battle Royale
Mother (by Bong Joon Ho)
TV SHOWS I'M OBSSESSED WITH
Ted Lasso
Normal People
Lost
The Leftovers
DIRECTORS I'VE SHADOWED
Michael Goi - ROOKIE: FEDS (ABC)
Peter Deluise - SHADOWHUNTERS (Freeform | Netflix)
Jeff Woolnough - THE EXPANSE (Syfy | Alcon Television Group)
Erik Canuel - RANSOM (CBS | TF1 | Sienna Films)
Nancy Meyers - WALMART "The Box" for the Oscars®
TEACHERS I'VE STUDIED WITH
Joan Scheckel
Judith Weston
Larry Moss
Tom Todoroff
MY DREAM
Direct a melodramatic musical love story that rivals Romeo and Juliet
INTERESTING FACT
I used to own four condos which I rented out on AirBNB. My husband and I would decide where we were going to sleep depending on which one was empty.
MY LOVE STORY
In 2013, Mark and I had been talking about getting married for a while. One Thursday night, in July, we found out that my mom was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Mark asked me, why don't we get married sooner? We looked at the calendar and the next two weekends, his dad was away on vacation. The week after that was my birthday and the week after that we were going away on vacation. So we decided to get married that weekend. We took the Friday off work and ran around the city getting our marriage license, rings, calling an officiant and photographer. We managed to get his parents and sister to agree to come and meet us the next day (Saturday) at my parents house, dress up and not ask questions. We told them we were going out for dinner.
An hour and a half before the ceremony, after helping dig up roots in the garden, we told my parents to dress up for dinner. My mom said she didn't want to go out, but we told her we have already paid for the reservation, so she had no choice.
We snuck Mark's family into my parents backyard and my parents were surprised to see everyone in their home.
We drove them to the park where the officiant and photographer met us by the pond and the goose poop. And on July 13, 2013, a hot, sunny (and sweaty) day, Mark and I surprised our immediate family by getting married.
