Samantha Lee
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source :
www.greengalactic.com
- 2002
Sam Lee has been involved in filmmaking in New York City
for the past eight years. After moving to the United States
from England, she spent four years teaching third grade
at a private tuition free school in Harlem. During that
time, she made two short 16mm films on the school before
leaving to pursue a career in filmmaking.
Sam trained as a film editor in the advertising world
before moving on to produce, write, and edit a variety
of documentary films for television. Her list of credits
include numerous biographies for NBC, The Bravo Channel
and two verite hours for The Learning Channel.
It was while she was making nine video shorts for Amnesty
International, that she was introduced to Danny Clinch
and the result was a collaboration on a feature length
documentary about the musician Ben Harper entitled Pleasure
and Pain. Since then, she has been editing a documentary
film for distribution in Europe and the United States
on trafficking of minority women into the sex industry
in South East Asia.
In between working on a children’s book, Sam continues
to look for interesting film projects and is beginning
to work on her own feature documentary that aims to find
the kids she taught ten years ago and unite their present
lives with their past experiences.
