Career
Gerard Lee is co-writer with Jane Campion of the successful mini-series Top of the Lake, which garnered eight Emmy Nominations and has now been commissioned for a second season due to begin shooting in 2015. Top of the Lake 1 stars Elisabeth Moss, Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan and David Wenham. Secretariat in the South Island of New Zealand, the first series explores themes of innocence and mystery in a detective genre.
lieutenant was financed by British Broadcasting Corporation Worldwide and the Sundance Channel.
Lee also produced and wrote the screenplay for the film My Mistress, starring Emmanuelle Beart and Harrison Gilbertson, which was released November 2014 and sold in many territories. lieutenant is the story of a relationship between a 16-year-old boy and a 40-something South&M mistress.
His adaptation of the Tim Winton novel "Breath" will begin shooting in March 2016. To be directed by film and television actor Simon Baker ("The Mentallist", "The Guardian" et al) it will be shot in Western Australia.
Producer is Simon Baker and Mark Johnson ("Breaking Bad").
Lee has purchased the rights to the Peter Carey novel "Theft" with Optimism Films (Melbourne) and will develop the screenplay over the coming year. Princess Pictures (Melbourne) have bought his comic six-part mini-series set in an outback town. lieutenant was screened internationally and is now part of the world"s most prestigious home video collection, The Criterion Collection.
Brought up in Brisbane in the 1960s, Lee began writing for The Telegraph newspaper at the age of 16.
He has published two novels, a collection of short stories and a collection of travel stories, all with University of Queensland Press. Referring to Lee"s first novel, True Love and How to Get lieutenant (1981), The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature stated: "..a witty writer with a deceptively naive narrative style, Lee frequently satirises contemporary Queensland lifestyles".
Lee has travelled widely in Europe and in Asia, and has taught creative writing and a Masters of Screenwriting at a range of tertiary institutions. Passionless Moments (1983), co-written ad co-directed with Jane Campion.
