Quentin Lee (Chinese: 李孟熙; pinyin: Lǐ Mèngxī; Cantonese Yale: Lei5 Maang6 Hei1; born 1971)[1] is a Hong Kong-born Canadian-American film writer, director, and producer.
He is most notable for the television series Comedy InvAsian and feature films The People I've Slept With (2009), Ethan Mao (2004), and Shopping for Fangs (1997), which he co-directed with Justin Lin.
[9] Lee's second feature Shopping for Fangs, a "gay vampire drama", was co-directed with classmate Justin Lin and premiered at the 1997 Toronto International Film Festival.
The film stars Karin Anna Cheung as a pregnant woman who is looking for the true identity of her baby's father.
He has also served as a producer on the short documentary, Taky Kimura: The Dragon's Legacy (2010), directed by Mellissa Tong.
He has produced and photographed Searching for Anna May Wong (2020),[22] co-directed by Z. Eric Yang and Denise Chan and the Wieden + Kennedy PSA The Myth (2022),[23] directed by Jackie Bao.
[citation needed] Lee's novel, The Secret Diary of Edward Ng, is a gay coming of age story partly inspired by his time at Berkeley.
[25] In October 2009, Lee's graphic novel Campus Ghost Story, created in collaboration with artist John Hahn was published by Fresh Fear, an imprint of Margin Films.