Paul Lee is a writer and director born in Malaysia.
Raised by Korean parents, he spent his formative years in Kuala Lumpur and Seoul. He immigrated to New Jersey at the age of eleven, and completed his degree in filmmaking at the University of Southern California.
He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is interested in exploring the nature of transitions/translations between languages/places.
Piranha and Mackerel must say goodbye to each other, so they make a list of things to do before they part ways. They travel to zoos, beaches, and elementary schools in South Korea in an attempt to distract themselves from their sadness. A film by Paul Lee.
“I realized one day that all I wanted to do was to film places from my childhood. It didn’t matter if there was a story or not. So I wrote a little plot that somewhat mirrored what was happening in my partner and I’s lives, and filmed the scenes in places I grew up in.“
I love to film things, tell stories, and read on the subway. I'm pretty sure blue whales are my power animal.
