PROJECTS - IN DEVELOPMENT
Fixer - Feature Film
John Cheng is the solitary owner of J.C. Electronics Repair, an old school fix-it shop on a forgotten street on the edge downtown Vancouver. At 52, the divorced Cheng maintains his ailing heart with tea and meditation, as he struggles with the death of his daughter, Grace, at the hands of a mysterious serial murderer nearly ten years ago.
From a customer’s salvaged hard drive, Cheng stumbles upon pornographic fetish images of Grace, which allude to the method of her torturous death. Inspired by a new friendship with Ingrid, a waitress at the run down neighbourhood diner and a renewed alliance with ex-cop Clay Forester, Cheng jumpstarts his own investigation into finally solving the murder of his daughter. His obsessive search quickly draws him into the seedy world of adult modeling, Asian crime and police corruption.
As Cheng travels a road of escalating violence, he is forced to face his own guilt, and ultimately, challenge his once firm belief in the cyclical nature of yin and yang, the opposing forces of change in the universe. To restore balance, Cheng must summon the strength for one last repair job. This time not simply as a man, but an instrument crafted to uncover the truth and sharpened to extract vengeance on those responsible for the death of his only child. No matter what the price
Writer – Corey Lee
Producer – Corey Lee
Of Winds and Dragons - Feature Film
December 1979. Freeman Mah, a martial arts master and mentor, not so long ago controlled Edmonton's Chinatown, but recently, his life has spiraled into turmoil. His occasional habit has grown into a serious gambling problem, his wife of eleven years is divorcing him, his rivals want him rubbed out and he’s under investigation for drug trafficking and cold-blooded murder by hotshot Chinese cop, Vince Yu.
With the last weekend before Christmas comes a surprise, as Connor, his nine year-old son, is left in his care for 36 hours, the very same window Freeman has to convert the ten dollars in his wallet into ten thousand for the biggest Mahjong game of his life and what he believes is the solution to all his problems. As Freeman drags Connor deeper into his murky world, where the line between right and wrong is horribly blurred, Vince goes the distance to take Freeman down, while his ex-partner, weathered cop, Gale Stasko, conducts an investigation of his own.
As the mother of all storms closes in, so do the walls around Freeman. He must make a choice between all he has been working for and rescuing a friend in danger. With lives and old world honour at stake, Freeman races toward a collision course with his enemies, both known and unknown, as Stasko digs for the truth about his expartner's obsession, the mysterious Freeman Mah and his alleged reign of crime.
Writer – Corey Lee
Producer – Corey Lee
Talk Show - Feature Film
After a 20 year rift, struggling actor/comedian, Jack LeTang, is invited to appear and break bread with his former comedy partner and recognized national celebrity, Peter Vincent, on his ratings challenged coast to coast live talk show. After much hype, a warm introduction and heartfelt reunion, Jack, armed with a gun and a bomb on a dead man’s trigger, takes the packed studio hostage. Blaming Peter and the media conglomerates for the failure of his career and marriage, Jack engages Peter, his staff and the audience in a game of truth or consequence. And as police prepare to invade, the situation is revealed to be not quite all that it seems. A publicity stunt or a Greek tragedy played in front of a live audience? Only the ratings will reveal.
Writer – Corey Lee & Sean Bowie
All Things Not Forgotten - Feature Film
After being taken from her mother and failing to break away a decade before, Camilla finally escapes years of abuse disguised as the religious teachings of the Assembly of God cult, led by the charismatic deviant, Louis. Forced to take a life in self-defense, she runs from the law and the Assembly's fixer, making her way to the small, familiar town which has haunted her dreams since she was whisked away from it ten years before. As the world comes unglued around her, Camilla must finally make the choice to face all the things that can never be forgotten.
Writer – Corey Lee
Producer – Corey Lee
The Dreamers - Short Film
A bold experimental live action and animated video that explores the creative pursuits and processes of a select, yet diverse, group of Canadians whose artistic endeavors are a sideline rather than a full time occupation. A series of unconventional interviews with artists from all disciplines, their only connection being their conscious need for a creative outlet.
Not only an examination of our evolution as people, as artists and as Canadians, but also of our reaction and response to the challenges and obstacles that confront us in expressing ourselves to an impersonal world. Must our dreams, so possible and tangible when we are young, shrink and conform to the increasing pressures of life in the 21st century?
Writer – Corey Lee
NIan: The Beast - Feature Film
In the harsh Canadian winter of 1884, Dana Fortune, a nomadic drifter, looks to lose himself in the ramshackle village of Moosemouth, a railway supply town on the edge of oblivion. Weaving through Chinatown's New Year celebrations and rumors of a madman leaving a trail of carnage through the rockies, Fortune discovers that the temporary community has little shelter to offer from the coming storm better than the warmth and comforts of the infamous Wild Rose, a brothel housed in the shell of an old prison, known for it's main attraction, it's delicate Asian flower, Li, a deaf since birth, Chinese widow of unsurpassed beauty.
Fortune's first drink is timed with timed with the arrival of a gang of men, obviously out for no good, led by a beast of a man named, McGinty. Having already killed the town's lawman, McGinty and his crew take control of the brothel as the blizzard moves in. Fortune and a motley mess of townsfolk and working girls take back the Rose. With Madam Rose dead, groups of men and working girls wait out the storm, as another more sinister evil than McGinty's gang, quickly moves through the darkness of the brothel, leaving nothing but corpses in it's wake.
As their numbers diminish, Fortune teams with Li, her young son, Cheng-Gong and the Rose's faithful caretaker, Sing, to make a last stand against the beast, which Cheng-Gong believes is the mythical flesh-eating demon, Nian, to make it through the night. As the solar and lunar calendars collide as they do only once every 19 years, few will survive a nightmare come to life. And those who do will likely wish they hadn't.
Writer – Corey Lee
Fur Nation
An episodic comedy/drama about a group of strangers who are brought together through their love of all things anthropomorphic, as we explore their hidden and not so hidden lives.
Writer – Corey Lee
Producer – Corey Lee
Wrecking Ball - Feature Film
A teenager abandons his creative gifts to embrace a tendency toward violence, as the fragile façade of his mixed race family collapses under the weight of his actor father’s fading celebrity and his budding romance with a shy classmate is derailed by her own abusive home life.
Writer – Corey Lee
Producer – Corey Lee
Imperfekt - Feature Film
A gas station attendant discovers a cloning machine on his family’s homestead and creates a ‘sister’ to help him extort money from the reclusive organ-cloning industrialist he believes is his ‘father’.
Writer – Corey Lee
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