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Aimée-Lee Xu Hsien is a Chinese-Irish-Australian Writer and Director. Her work is exuberant, playful, irreverent, and full of heart.
Aimée-Lee Xu Hsien is a Chinese-Irish-Australian Writer and Director. She directs drama like it’s a comedy, and comedy like it’s a drama, creating an off-beat hybrid that is exuberant, playful, irreverent, and full of heart. Aimée-Lee is an actor’s director who knows how to bring out the best in her cast. She loves to explore character and elevate reality through richly detailed production design, bringing a lavish visual style to even the most humble of stories (and budgets).
Aimee-Lee's commercial work includes TVCs for CommBank, PayPal, Maltesers, ABC, H&M, Square, Ad Standards, and a six-camera broadcast event for Tik Tok.
In 2023, her comedy web-series, _Pleasant Avenue, _was financed by Screen Australia in association with Screen NSW. It stars Heather Mitchell, John Batchelor and Ursula Yovich, and is currently in post-production.
Her short film, Jump has screened at over 25 international film festivals, and won Best Short Film at the Academy Award-accredited Palm Springs International ShortFest, Provincetown International Film Festival and Blue Mountains Film Festival.
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 has directed music videos for a host of Aria-award nominated artists including Lime Cordiale, Thundamentals, Hellions, and Ruby Boots.
Aimée-Lee is represented by Rabbit.au in Australia and New Zealand.
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