Biografia
Lorna Tee is a film producer, programmer, trainer, and curator who splits her time between Asia and Europe. She has collaborated with Focus Films (Hong Kong), Variety (USA), Irresistible Films (Hong Kong/Japan), and various film festivals including Berlinale and CinemAsia Film Festival. In 2007, she produced the inaugural pan-Asian Asian Film Awards. Until 2020, she co-founded and led Festival Management for the International Film Festival & Awards Macao.
Her notable filmography features 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 produces films and series targeting international audiences through her Malaysian production company Paperheart and Amsterdam-based An Original Picture.
Tee mentors and lectures at film training programs and labs such as SEAFIC, EAVE, London Film School, DW Film Akademi, and Attagirl, focusing mainly on emerging filmmakers. She collaborates with numerous international film institutions and funds in various roles. Currently, she serves as the year-round programming consultant for Cinematheque Passion in Macao and curates an incubation development lab for Malaysian filmmakers, mylab, aimed at international feature co-productions.
She has served as a jury member at festivals including Berlinale, Guanajuato (Mexico), Independent Film & TV Awards (Hong Kong), Durban (South Africa), Sydney (Australia), Semaine de la Critique (France), Zurich (Switzerland), World Cinema Amsterdam (Netherlands), BFI London Film Festival (UK), Q Cinema (Philippines), Jecheon Film & Music Festival (South Korea), Sarajevo (Bosnia), Tokyo (Japan), European Film Festival (Serbia), among others. Additionally, she has served on the boards of festivals such as Shanghai IFF, Jakarta IFF, Busan IFF, and Cinemart (IFF Rotterdam).
In 2021, she received the Filmmaker of the Year award from the Chinese Film Association of Malaysia and was recognized in The Hollywood Reporter's Next-Gen Asia list in 2010.
