Lee Milby

Director
Director and Storyboard Artist

New York City, New York

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September 2015

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About Lee

Hello!

I'm a director based in NYC. I specialize in music videos and short form narrative content.

I studied oil painting and performance art at PrattMWP and The Cooper Union.

I'm also an Asian transracial adoptee, who was born in Hawaii, put into foster care, and raised in an Irish-American family, mostly in Upstate NY. My Dad is a Vietnam veteran raised in the South Bronx, my Mom was raised "all over the south" before her family settled in MA. Before I was adopted, my family lived in Japan, so even though my family is Irish-American, I grew up eating Japanese cuisine, with Japanese phrases spoken at home and living in a house that was decorated with Japanese decorations. I'm not Japanese though, I'm believed to be "mostly" Vietnamese, with biological father unknown to this day.

This is all to say that I come to filmmaking with a bit of a unique lens. I love working with people and communities from all walks of life - socially, politically, culturally. As an adoptee, we live with the fact that who we are... could have been anyone. Nature vs Nurture is my foundation, so exploring identities - characters, stories, beliefs, from around the world is fascinating to me.

Unique traits: Background in oil painting, Asian transracial adoptee

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Photograph taken on the set of feature film, "Due to Insanity"

Promotional photo for feature film, "Due to Insanity"

Credits

Trouble Connecting (2022)
Film (short) by The Women's Weekend Film Challenge / Lee Milby Director A woman lured by the promise of idealistic TV friendships struggles to understand the true meaning of sisterhood.
Just Super (2018)
Film (short) by Lee Milby Director A mousey gal scrapes along in her mousey life.
Cicatrix (2018)
Television by Lee Milby (Drama) Director A loner, Samson Levi arrives in New Jersey from Florida to try and escape his troubled past including a recent divorce and separation from his son. His desire to fall under the radar, however, takes a dramatic turn when he's involved in a high-profile car accident bringing his name to the forefront of every news station. Through the help of doctors at River Terrace Medical, Samson survives but is left with numerous physical scarring. The medical staff each have their own prerogatives and their loyalties will be challenged by unexpected characters while treating Samson. Samson must now face the modern world with a new physical identity and the outpouring of unorthodox characters who are each dealing with their own physical and internal scar or Cicatrix.
Forge (2016)
Film (short) by Lee Milby Director Alex and Eric survive the apocalypse, squatting in an apartment. When Alex gets hurt, Eric must fend for them both. But can he handle the pressure?
Due to Insanity (2015)
Film by Ryan Halasz (Documentary, Action, Adventure and Horror) Art department, Art director, Camera and Electrical Department, Costume designer, Makeup Department, Production designer, Self A found footage documentary that starts of with three friends, Ryan Halasz, Lee Milby and Mark Dukes, who discovered an abandoned insane asylum in New Jersey is being demolished to build a park. Ryan and Lee decide to go take footage and picture of what remains while Lee's boyfriend Mark stays behind. When they come back strange and unexplainable things start to happen like something is following them. Ryan starts to complaining of horrible nightmares while Lee goes into a downward spiral of madness. Lee then goes missing and Ryan and Mark decide to go back into the insane asylum tunnels in search of her but what they find is far beyond what they've ever imagined.