Bryan Yanbing Lee is a twenty-four year old Malaysian-American filmmaker.

After graduating from NYU's undergrad Film and TV program in 2024, where he was mentored by various filmmakers, including director Jon Watts (Wolfs (2024), Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)), his politically-charged and darkly comedic short film "The American" (2025) premiered at the prestigious and Oscar-qualifying Cinequest Film Festival and was also selected as an official selection of the Oscar-qualifying Nashville Film Festival and Beverly Hills Film Festival amongst many other festivals. It had also recently been selected for distribution by the popular short film channel, Film Shortage.
His unique, genre-subversive short films has also won awards and distinctions at festivals including Flicker's Rhode Island International Film Festival, Beverly Hills Film Festival, Blackbird Film Festival and the Houston Comedy Film Festival, where he was the Best Dark Comedy Award winner.

Furthermore, as an emerging Asian-American filmmaking talent and voice, his work has been featured on publications such as Forbes, Rice and Spice Magazine as well as on YouTube, X and other online platforms to virality and over hundreds of thousands of views and acclaim.

Bryan is currently in development on a dark-comedy feature film produced by producers from MGMT Entertainment, as well as Michelle Mao, who recently starred in the latest season of Bridgerton as well as starring in and producing Kogonada's latest Sundance-premiering film, Zi, earlier this year.

Bryan is also executive producing "I'm Not Home", directed by Elena Parasco and starring Eli Brown and Julian De Niro, which will be premiering at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival. His screenplays have also been recognized by various institutions, including recently being a quarter-finalist at the Art of Brooklyn Screenplay Competition.