Philip Lee

Philip holds a Bachelor of Arts in Directing from the College of Arts at Nihon University in Japan, a Diploma in Management of Executive Development from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a Master of Fine Arts in Producing from The American Film Institute (AFI), and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was the recipient of The Mary Pickford Foundation Scholarship at AFI. From 1987 to 1993, Philip ran the Production Department at Salon Films Hong Kong. While at Salon Films, he was the Asian unit production manager on more than 20 Hollywood films and numerous television productions, including Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story, M. Butterfly and Around the World in Eighty Days (TV Series). After returning to Asia in 1996 from his studies in the United States, Philip received Associate Producer or Line Producer credits in successful feature films such as CHEN Kaige's The Emperor and the Assassin, Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Zhang Yimou's Hero, Ronny Yu's Fearless, Jan de Bont's Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (Hong Kong Unit), and Rob Minkoff's Forbidden Kingdom. In 2008, he line produced the Hong Kong portion of Chris Nolan's The Dark Knight. Most recently, he executive produced Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis' Cloud Atlas, which is based on David Mitchell's best seller. This is the most expensive independent film of all time with most of equity investment from Asia. In 2007 Philip Lee set up Javelin Pictures, a production company based in Beijing, with a view to producing viable cross-cultural film projects.