Lee Thean-jeen

Lee Thean-jeen (Simplified Chinese:李天仁) is an award-winning[1] director, screenwriter and television showrunner best known for the Singapore television drama series AlterAsians, The Singapore Short Story Project, The Pupil, Code Of Law and Zero Calling.[2]

He has also written or co-written, and directed, the feature films, Homecoming (笑着回家), Love...And Other Bad Habits (玩味爱情), Everybody's Business (人人有粪), and Bring Back The Dead (招魂).[2]

Career

Born in Penang, Malaysia, Thean-jeen attended Penang Free School, then graduated with a summa cum laude in Broadcasting And Film from Boston University's College of Communication. He went to work for the then-Singapore Broadcasting Corporation, producing corporate videos,[3] before leaving to become one of the founding members of Film Formations, a Singapore-based production company.[4]

He is currently the Managing Director of Weiyu Films, a content-creation and production company founded by him.[5]

His first drama series, AlterAsians[6](2000), an adaptation of short stories by Singaporean novelists into telemovies and shot on 16mm film, won several awards, including Best Single Drama or Telemovie at the Asian Television Awards 2000.[7][8]

A follow-up series of short story adaptations, The Singapore Short Story Project, won the Asian Television Award in 2003 for Best Drama Series[9] and again, in 2008, for Best Single Drama or Telemovie.[10]

The Pupil, a legal drama which he co-created, executive-produced, and also wrote and directed was well-received by local audiences and critics alike, winning two major awards at the 2010 Asian Television Awards: Best Actress In A Leading Role for Rebecca Lim and Best Actor In A Supporting Role for Lim Kay Tong.[11]

Code Of Law, a drama series on the criminal justice system in Singapore, has entered its third season.

Zero Calling, a vigilante thriller based on an award-winning script by Thean-jeen, has entered its second season, after picking up a Best Actor award for its leading actor, Pierre Png, and a Silver Remi for Best TV Miniseries at the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival.[12]

Thean-jeen was the first director to occupy Discovery Networks Asia's Documentary Director's Chair, a crossover programme for film and television filmmakers who have built a reputation for innovative, high-quality filmmaking to produce documentary work for Discovery Channel’s global network.[13]

His first feature film, Homecoming (笑着回家), starring Jack Neo, Ah Niu, Afdlin Shauki and Rebecca Lim was one of the top-grossing local films in Singapore and Malaysia in 2011.[14]

He has appeared on the Straits Times’ Power List in Entertainment, a barometer of the top ten movers and shakers in the local media industry.[15]

Filmography

Feature Credits

TV Series

Telemovies

Documentaries

Awards

Zero Calling

Code Of Law

The Pupil

Homecoming (笑着回家)

The Singapore Short Story Project

AlterAsians

External links

References

  1. ↑ "Singapore's Digital & English Formats Score At Asian Television Awards 2014 » Popspoken". Popspoken.
  2. 1 2 "Thean-jeen Lee". IMDb.
  3. ↑ "How to improve S’pore’s film, TV production: Lee Thean-jeen". Yahoo Entertainment Singapore. 23 March 2012.
  4. ↑ "Speech by Dr Tan Chin Nam, Chairman of Media Development Authority at the Media Education Scheme Awards Ceremony". Ministry of Communications and Information.
  5. ↑ "But Is The Book Better? Special Event: Gone Case". TicketMash.
  6. ↑ "Alter Asians [videorecording] / Arts Central presents ; a Film Formations production ; Mediacorp TV12 ; produced by Yvonne Koh, Sharon Ho. - Version details - Trove". nla.gov.au.
  7. ↑ "Newspaper Article - Awards can wait, actors must come first, says director of Alter Asians". nlb.gov.sg.
  8. ↑ "2000 Winners". Asian Television Awards.
  9. ↑ National Library Board, Singapore. "The Singapore short story project [videorecording] : based on the short stories of Gopal Baratham, Geraldine Kan, Ho Min Fong, David Leo, Alfian Sa'at / Film Formations [for] MediaCorp TV12 Arts Central ; directed by Lee Thean-Jeen ; produced by Goh Kar Seen.". nl.sg.
  10. ↑ "2003 Winners". Asian Television Awards.
  11. ↑ "2010 Winners". Asian Television Awards.
  12. ↑ SAMANTHA GOH. "Zero in on Pierre Png". The Straits Times.
  13. ↑ "Discovery launches $3m Singapore pact". C21media.
  14. ↑ List of Singaporean films
  15. ↑ http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Issue/straitstimes20081211-1.aspx
  16. ↑ "2001 Winners". Asian Television Awards.
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