Author: Quentin Lee

On Facebook, I saw my director friend Yusaku Mizoguchi win Best Director at the City of Angels Film Festival for his feature Sae, a touching drama about a Japanese student who decides to overstay her student visa in the U.S. in order to pursue a life as an artist. As an international student myself, I felt deeply connected to Sae’s perspective and reached out to Yusaku for an interview.

When I was making my feature The Way You Dance in Vancouver earlier this year, I was invited to a Royal Bank of Canada event in partnership with the Whistler Film Festival. There, I bumped into Cassandra Naud and Emily Tennant, the two leads of Influencer, a thriller feature I had caught on Shudder. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that it was a Canadian production shot in Vancouver—and that both lead actors were Canadian as well. I remember Influencer as a smart, character-driven thriller centered on a psychopath (played by Naud) who takes over the identities and assets of her victims, all of whom are influencers.

Having done extensive cultural criticism work when I was a graduate student at Yale and Berkeley in the early 2000s, I lament that film critics…

As I was programming and moderating a Q&A for Yale in Hollywood Fest, I asked Arnold Setiadi, director of Something Good Going On, whether the…

Each year, Fresh Fear recommends 10 horror features—new, classic or rarely seen—available now on streaming to binge for Halloween! Here’s our October 2025 list:

It’s no wonder that Weapons is a hit at the U.S. box office as the movie arrives at the perfect time when our political fears manifest every day in America where we feel helpless to talk about. Now there is a horror movie that answers to our worst nightmare—school mass shootings.

When I saw Josette Jorge win a Canadian Screen Award earlier this year, I was overjoyed to see a fellow Asian Pacific Islander friend receive such recognition. An actor, writer, and educator based in Toronto, Josette earned her first Canadian Screen Award in 2025 for Best Supporting Performer in a Children’s or Youth Program for Ruby and the Well. Last year, my producing partner Cindy Au Yeung and I also received a Canadian Screen Award—Best Comedy Special—for our series Comedy Invasio

Jenifer Yeuroukis, a filmmaker friend I’ve met about a decade ago in my hip hop classes at the former Edge Performance Art Center in Los Angeles, has just directed her first feature film The Queerdos that I executive produced. The Queerdos also marks the first feature film of the film movement Dogma LA 25 that a collective of filmmakers and I have founded. Wrapping The Queerdos, I’ve taken the opportunity to have a conversation with her.

Even though I grew up in the 80s, Jack Sholder’s 1982 first feature Alone in the Dark slipped past my horror radar, until last night, in the year of The Thing, Creepshow, Amityville Possession, Halloween III, The Entity and Poltergeist which I have all watched and enjoyed as a budding horror fan entering teenhood. I have been curious about the original key art of the 1982 movie, searched for the film and found a screener on Youtube. I believe Alone in the Dark was probably one of Bob Shaye’s first couple of original New Line Cinema productions.

Returning to the city where I was born, Hong Kong, I met up with artist Chow Ciao Chow whom I first knew as Steven and a fashion design student. After years of having lost touch, we reconnected via Instagram and he told me we met years ago through a mutual friend and hung out in Hong Kong. Returning to this amazing city, I took the opportunity to interview this rising artist with a uniquely queer and Asian perspective.