Biographie
Lorna Tee is a film producer, programmer, trainer and curator, dividing her time between Asia and Europe. She has worked with Focus Films (Hong Kong), Variety (USA), Irresistible Films (Hong Kong/ Japan), and also film festivals such as Berlinale, CinemAsia Film Festival and others. She produced the first pan-Asian film awards, the Asian Film Awards in 2007. She was the co-founder and Head of Festival Management for the International Film Festival & Awards Macao until 2020.
Selected filmography includes The Beautiful Washing Machine, Rain Dogs, Crazy Stone, My Mother is a Bellydancer, The Shoe Fairy, At the End of Daybreak, Lover's Discourse, Come Rain, Come Shine, Postcards from the Zoo, Mrs K and HBO's Folklore Episode (Toyol). She is producing with her Malaysian production company Paperheart, and with Amsterdam-based company, An Original Picture, primarily focusing on films and series for an international audience.
She mentors and lectures with film training programmes/ labs (SEAFIC, EAVE, London Film School, DW Film Akademi, Attagirl and more), primarily with emerging filmmakers, plus collaborates with various international film institutions and film funds in multiple capacities. She is currently the year-round programming consultant for Cinematheque Passion in Macao and the curator of an incubation development lab for Malaysian filmmakers with feature films for international co-productions, mylab.
Tee has been invited to be on the jury at the Berlinale, Guanajuato(Mexico), Independent Film & TV Awards (HK), Durban (South Africa), Sydney (Australia), Semaine de la Critique (France), Zurich (Switzerland), World Cinema Amsterdam (Netherlands), BFI London FF (UK), Q Cinema (The Philippines), Jecheon FIlm & Music Festival (South Korea), Sarajevo (Bosnia), Tokyo (Japan), European FIlm Festival (Serbia) and more. She has served on the board for festivals such as Shanghai IFF, Jakarta IFF, Busan IFF, and Cinemart (IFF Rotterdam).
She has been awarded the Filmmaker of the Year award by the Chinese FIlm Association of Malaysia in 2021 and been listed in The Hollywood Reporter Next-Gen Asia in 2010.
