AIMÉE-LEE XU HSIEN DIRECTOR
Aimée-Lee Xu Hsien is a Chinese-Irish-Australian Writer and Director working in offbeat comedies. She loves to explore character and elevate reality through richly detailed production design, bringing a lavish visual style to all her films. Her work is exuberant, playful, irreverent, and full of heart.
Aimée-Lee's commercial work includes TVCs for MLA, Uber Eats, CommBank, PayPal, H&M, Maltesers, ABC, Square, and a six-camera broadcast event for Tik Tok.
Her comedy web-series, Pleasant Avenue, starring Heather Mitchell, Ursula Yovich and John Batchelor, was released on Facebook to rave reviews and over 200K views in its first week. It was financed by Screen Australia and Screen NSW.
Aimée-Lee's short film, Jump, won Best Short Film at the Academy Award-accredited Palm Springs International ShortFest 2013 and Provincetown International Film Festival 2013. The film went on to play at 25 international film festivals and was licensed by Tribeca Film Festival's inflight entertainment channel. Her follow up short, The Palace That I Live In, had its world premiere at Palm Springs International Short Fest, 2014 and also screened at the NYC Independent Film Festival, 2015, Edinburgh Short Film Festival, 2015, and Tasmania Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival, 2016.
Season Two of the web series Syd2030, directed by Aimée-Lee, won Best International Web Series at the LA Film, TV & Webisode Festival, the Melbourne WebFest and Dublin WebFest.
Aimée-Lee was Kim Farrant's director's attachment on the 2014 feature film Strangerland, starring Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving and Joseph Fiennes. In 2024 she shadowed Trent O'Donnell on Colin From Accounts season two.
Aimée-Lee is an ADG Award nominee in Music Video Direction and has directed clips for a host of Aria-award nominated artists including Lime Cordiale and Thundamentals.
For commercial enquiries, contact
Alex Hay - EP / Partner @ Rabbit
+61 449 528 228
alex@rabbit.au
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