Quinny
18min, F55
A young boxer faces a moral dilemma when he unwittingly accepts a bet to fight a man with the mental capacity of a five year-old.
Director: A. L. Lee
Writer: A. L. Lee
Producer: Alex Ma
Executive Producer: Nicole Guillemet
Co-producers: Mehrnoush Alighaei, Kasia Kruk
Director of Photography: Diego Jiménez
Editor: William Lehman
Cast: Deema Aitken, Alex Breaux, Robert Kabakoff, Christopher LaPanta, Andrew Platner, T. J. Glenn
Email: a.lauren.lee@gmail.com
Phone: 917-626-3229
About the Writer/Director
A. L. Lee received an MFA in Screenwriting from Columbia University. Her feature-length screenplay The Legend of Pig-Eye, an adaptation of a short story by Rick Bass, won the top prize in the Columbia University Screenwriting Awards the year she graduated. She has written four other feature-length screenplays and is currently working on another. She has directed the short films Sam’s Birth, La Valse de Tristan, and Pork Hearts. She originally trained as a violinist at the Eastman School of Music and the New England Conservatory.
About the Producer
Alex Ma is currently pursuing an MFA degree in Filmmaking atColumbia University. He has produced films in Asia, the Americas, and the Middle East, which have been shown and received awards from festivals worldwide. Alex is also the translator for the Chinese edition of Maureen Ryan’s Producer to Producer: A Step-By-Step Guide to Low Budget Independent Film Producing and has served as the Film Panel Director of Columbia China Prospects Conference.
