Lee freely admits that the first stage of her film career has lasted nearly 18 years. The second stage financial support and mass acceptance could be just around the corner. Lee has just returned from the Los Angeles leg of the touring New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. Festival finalists will move on to showings in New York in November, and Lee expects to follow her films to the Big Apple. Through the festival, Lee is hoping to find distributors for the films.
Distribution leads to interest, interest leads to financing.
Financing leads to filmmaking and directing. Lee first decided on a film career at age 43. Well-received student films followed. This 1995 short has been aired on Maine Public Television. Although the details are still shrouded in secrecy, the author denies that it is entirely autobiographical.