Private Project

Chinese School (pitch video)

The characters of The Breakfast Club come together in a Twilight Zone version of the Chinese School Institution

Set in the dystopic reality, this is not your childhood Chinese School: the old system with its one-dimensional teaching methods has been abolished. A new system of learning has been instated that classifies students by their unique learning styles: Auditory. Visual. or Reader/Writer. Students are kept apart from other streams to maintain the purity of their schooling. All in the name of evolution and advancement.

But, when the school goes into lockdown due to a breach from The Outside, 3 students from each of the different streams are accidentally thrown together. The group begins to discover the cracks in the walls and a buried truth in the rumoured basement level of the school.

  • Justin F Lee
    Director
    The Observatory, Smile for Me
  • Justin F. Lee
    Writer
    The Observatory
  • Kenneth Tynan
    Producer
    Smile for Me
  • Kenneth Tynan
    Key Cast
    "Neal"
    Zero Chill (Netflix), Smile for Me
  • Belen Garcia (DOP signed on for the short)
    Director of Photography
    Residents of Arcadia (Dystopia film)
  • Aries Ceta
    Executive Producer
  • Raugi Yu
    Mentor Director
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English, Yue Chinese (Cantonese)
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Justin F Lee

Justin is a playwright, filmmaker, and sailor interested in the collaboration between entertainment mediums to make moving stories. He is an associate producer/artist at Electric Company Theatre where he is working on his next script a to-be-titled Chinatown Mystery under the guidance of (core artist) Kevin Kerr.

Recent credits (film): Mongrels (associate producer), Bunk Beds (DOP), The Observatory (Director & co-writer), Night Market Neighbours CBC (On-set producer), Smile for Me (Director), The Man on the Bus (1st AD). For theatre: ECT’s Undeveloped Sound workshop (script assistant), Belfry Theatre’s Serving Elizabeth (videographer), Theatre SKAM's Fall Pop-Up Shows (director), SKAMpede's The Open Gate (writer), and the audio drama A Way Out (Showrunner)

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