Biography

Anita Lee is a producer at the National Film Board of Canada.  Since joining the NFB in 2005, she produced a slate of award-winning films including The Bodybuilder and I (winner Best Canadian Documentary Feature, Hot Docs 2007, winner Best Canadian Feature Documentary, Atlantic Film Festival, 2007), FLicKeR (winner Jury Prize for Best Canadian Feature Documentary, Hot Docs 2008, winner Prize for Best Film: Films on Art, Era New Horizons International Film Festival 2009, Gemini Nomination for Best Arts Documentary 2009), and Tiger Spirit (Gemini winner of the Donald Brittain Award 2009).  She also co-produced Deepa Mehta’s dramatic feature, Heaven on Earth (TIFF world premiere 2008, nominated for Canada’s Top Ten 2008).  Lee has also been a lead producer of interactive projects at the NFB and produced Late Fragment, an interactive dramatic feature (TIFF world premiere 2007, SXSW 2008) with the CFC New Media Lab.  Lee recently completed Act of Dishonour, a dramatic feature by Nelofer Pazira, produced with Danny Iron and theatrically distributed by E1.  She is currently in production on The Darkroom a film by Sarah Polley.  Previous to joining the NFB, Lee was an independent producer of critically acclaimed films that screened at major festivals, TIFF, Sundance, Berlin and Pusan, including Proteus by John Greyson, (TIFF world premiere 2003, Berlin 2004).  In 1997, she founded the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and continues to serve on their Advisory Board.