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-Born and raised in Los Angeles, writer/director/producer Danny Lee made his feature film debut with the critically acclaimed ROCK FRESH, a candid documentary of graffiti artists making the leap to commercial art.  The film world premiered at the AFI Fest where Variety singled it out as one of the films to watch.  The film aired regularly on Showtime and enjoyed a broad domestic and international DVD release.
-Lee subsequently wrote and directed his narrative debut KING OF HOLLYWOOD, a dark comedy starring Ice-T, Peter Greene, Ike Turner, Glenn Plummer, and more.  In addition, Lee has also directed/edited music videos for Taz Arnold of Sa-Ra, Substance Abuse, and Kool Keith; MAKING THE VIDEO: T.I. for MTV; an award-winning commercial for FIVE FOUR; featurettes for television shows LIE TO ME, BLUE BLOODS, and MEDIUM; short documentaries for Current TV including WALE, HAN CHOLO, and ALOE BLACC; and MISSION MAKEOVER w/ Jordan Feldman for AOL, which was a Webby Official Honoree.  Currently, Lee’s first scripted comedy series THE CLINIC starring Joe Hursley is exclusively on Hulu.  He’s also working on SKIDZ w/ skaters Paul Rodriguez Jr. and Terry Kennedy;  reality projects with NICK METROPOLIS, BEN BALLER, JUSTIN GLORY, KATHY SHOWER, and more.  In features, he has BACKPACKERS w/ Evan Ross and WINTER WAR, which was awarded the Best Project Award, along with a cash grant in the Korean Film Council 2008 Filmmaker Development Lab.
-Lee has been featured in Paper Magazine’s 10th Annual Beautiful People issue, highlighting him as one of the filmmakers to watch.  In addition, Lee has been featured in Variety, Hollywood Reporter, GQ, LA Weekly, 944, URB, and Koream; appeared on the WB and KJLA, as well as radio stations KCRW, KXLU, and KUCI.  He was a fellow for Film Independent’s Project: Involve program, as well as KOFIC’s (Korean Film Council) Filmmaker Development Lab, where Lee was named winner and his script WINTER WAR was given the Best Project Award, along with a cash grant.  Lee graduated from the UC Santa Barbara Film Theory program, and cut his creative teeth at Lionsgate and formed his own production company Calico Works in 2002. Lee is repped by Paradigm.   More at http://www.dannyleeworks.com
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