Tammy Nguyen Lee

Tammy is a first generation Vietnamese American who came to the U.S. as a boat person. She graduated from Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts. A decorated student leader, her first films, Lunar Cycles, First Slow Burn (starring Alias actress Amy Acker) and Yellow screened at several film festivals, including SMU Film Festival, Asian Film Festival of Dallas, and San Diego Asian Film Festival. She received her MFA from the prestigious UCLA Producers Program. She produced for the campus news show “UCLA Next.” Her projects, Siamese and Fortune’s Fool, placed her in the Finals of the Producers Guild sponsored Marketplace competition, highlighting her as one of the division’s most promising emerging producers. She has received the Mickey Dude Fellowship, a grant for her work in Asian-themed projects, the Women In Film College Scholarship, and numerous other talent based grants and scholarships. After working at Revolution Studios and The Mine, she moved back to her hometown of Dallas, where she is currently the Director of Development & Distribution for Original Programming at AMS Pictures. In 2007, she founded ATG (Against The Grain Productions), a non-profit production company whose mission is to raise money for international orphanage and create stories that promote the Asian American experience.