Samantha Lee

Samantha Lee is a Filipino filmmaker After completing her Master of Communication with distinction at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology RMIT she moved back to the Philippines to write and direct her first feature film Baka Bukas 2016 It won the Emerging Talent Award at Outfest 2017 and the Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival It has screened in festivals in New York San Francisco Osaka Melbourne Madrid and Hamburg Her second film called Billie and Emma 2018 won the Audience Award for Best Narrative at Inside Out 2019 the Jury Award RunnerUp for Best International Film in Out on Film Atlanta and the RunnerUp for Audience Award for Favorite Feature at Seattle Queer Film Festival It has been screened in over thirty film festivals internationally Her first series called Sleep With Me starring Janine Gutierrez and Lovi Poe premiered in Outfest 2022 where it won the audience award for Best Episodic She has talked about using romantic comedies as a tool for advocating for better representation of women and the LGBTQ community in various publications like Vice Paper and Nylon