Sam Lee has been involved in filmmaking in New York City for the past eight years.  After moving to the United States from England, she spent four years teaching third grade at a private tuition free school in Harlem.  During that time, she made two short 16mm films on the school before leaving to pursue a career in filmmaking.

Sam trained as a film editor in the advertising world before moving on to produce, write, and edit a variety of documentary films for television.  Her list of credits include numerous biographies for NBC, The Bravo Channel and two verite hours for The Learning Channel.

It was while she was making nine video shorts for Amnesty International, that she was introduced to Danny Clinch and the result was a collaboration on a feature length documentary about the musician Ben Harper entitled Pleasure and Pain.  Since then, she has been editing a documentary film for distribution in Europe and the United States on trafficking of minority women into the sex industry in South East Asia.

In between working on a children’s book, Sam continues to look for interesting film projects and is beginning to work on her own feature documentary that aims to find the kids she taught ten years ago and unite their present lives with their past experiences.

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For more information about the theatrical release of Pleasure & Pain or to interview directors Danny Clinch or Sam Lee please contact Lynn Hasty at Green Galactic, 323-466-5141 or lynn@greengalactic.com. To arrange interviews with Ben Harper please contact Shelby Meade at Fresh and Clean on 310-396-6772 or Shelbyfreshclean@aol.com.