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.

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).

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,[2] before leaving to become one of the founding members of Film Formations, a Singapore-based production company.[3]

He is currently the Managing Director of Weiyu Films, a content-creation and production company founded by him.[4]

His first drama series, AlterAsians[5] (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.[6][7]

A follow-up series of short story adaptations, The Singapore Short Story Project, won the Asian Television Award in 2003 for Best Drama Series[8] and again, in 2008, for Best Single Drama or Telemovie.[9]

The Pupil, a legal drama which he co-created, executive-produced, 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.[10]

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.[11]

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.[12]

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.[13]

He has appeared on The Straits Times' Power List in Entertainment, a barometer of the top ten most influential people in the local media industry.[14]

Filmography

Feature Credits

TV Series

Telemovies

Documentaries

Awards

Bring Back The Dead

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. ↑ "How to improve S'pore's film, TV production: Lee Thean-jeen". Yahoo Entertainment Singapore. 23 March 2012.
  3. ↑ "Speech by Dr Tan Chin Nam, Chairman of Media Development Authority at the Media Education Scheme Awards Ceremony". Ministry of Communications and Information.
  4. ↑ "But Is The Book Better? Special Event: Gone Case". TicketMash.
  5. ↑ "Alter Asians [videorecording] / Arts Central presents ; a Film Formations production ; Mediacorp TV12 ; produced by Yvonne Koh, Sharon Ho. - Version details - Trove". nla.gov.au.
  6. ↑ "Newspaper Article - Awards can wait, actors must come first, says director of Alter Asians". nlb.gov.sg.
  7. ↑ "2000 Winners". Asian Television Awards.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ "2003 Winners". Asian Television Awards.
  10. ↑ "2010 Winners". Asian Television Awards.
  11. ↑ SAMANTHA GOH. "Zero in on Pierre Png". The Straits Times.
  12. ↑ "Discovery launches $3m Singapore pact". C21media.
  13. ↑ List of Singaporean films
  14. ↑ http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Issue/straitstimes20081211-1.aspx
  15. ↑ "2001 Winners". Asian Television Awards.
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