Stacey Lee (film director)

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Stacey Lee is a documentary film director from New Zealand. [1]

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Biography

Lee began her career in advertising, working for Saatchi & Saatchi in New Zealand from 2002 to 2007, then for advertising agencies 180 Amsterdam and Mother New York. [2] [3] In 2006, she was ranked 9th equal in the world at the YoungGuns International Awards. [4] While working with athletes in Amsterdam for an Adidas campaign, she moved into film-making. Her films have appeared at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival and the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. [5]

Filmography

YearFilmRoleAwards/nominationsNotes
2010One Fire Ignites AnotherDirector [3]
2015Live Fast, Draw YungCo-director (with Anthony Mathile) and producerWinner, Best Documentary Short – 2015 Tacoma Film Festival [6] [7]
2019UnderplayedDirector [8]
2022OLIVIA RODRIGO: driving home 2 uDirectorWinner, Best Music Documentary - 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards [9]

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References

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  3. 1 2 "Arrivals & Departures: Fish taps Yankiwis M+AD!". M+AD!. 14 November 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
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