Career
Benson Lee is an award-winning Korean-American filmmaker who has worked in drama, documentary, and commercial production for over 15 years. Documentaries His first documentary, Planet B-Boy, was one of the top-grossing theatrical documentaries of 2008 in the United States. His work has aired on Home Box Office, Music Television, the Sundance Channel, and has been theatrically distributed to over 30 countries worldwide. Lee is also working on, a documentary about a concert for peace (modeled after Live Aid) that will hold simultaneous concerts in both South and North of Korea on the same day.
This concert will take place in the Fall of 2014.
Narrative Films In 2011, Lee directed the 3D Hollywood adaptation of Planet B-Boy titled Battle of the Year for Sony Pictures / Screen Gems, which stars Josh Holloway, Laz Alonso, and Chris Brown. The film was released September 20, 2013.
Lee recently completed the film Seoul Searching, an 80s Teen Comedy about a group of diverse Korean high school teens from around the globe, coming together in 1986 to experience the most important summer of their lives. Although the intentions of the camp were honorable, the activities of the teens were not.
The film made its premiere as an official selection of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, and also stars Justin Chon and Jessika Van.
Lee attended or graduated from the University of Hawaii, New York University and the Fashion Institute of Technology.