MediaMaker Fellowship

Patrick G. Lee

Patrick G. Lee (they/them) is a queer diasporic Korean filmmaker, writer, and community organizer. Patrick is interested in building collaborative models of filmmaking that equip LGBTQ people of color with media-making skills. Their most recent project, “Unspoken,” won several festival awards and is educationally distributed by Third World Newsreel. Their NBC docuseries, “Searching for Queer Asian Pacific America,” won the NAMIC Vision Award for Long Form Digital Media. Patrick has written for Mother Jones, The Nation, ProPublica, The Atlantic, and more. Previously, Patrick worked with the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance to help build a vibrant network of queer Asian grassroots groups. They have been coping with pandemic times mostly by eating carbs.