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Yeon Jin Lee
Yeon Jin was born in South Korea and raised in Seoul, Jakarta, and Southern California. She earned her B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where a Pixar internship sparked her passion for filmmaking. After five years at NASA, she earned her MFA in Film & Television Production from USC as an Annenberg Fellow.
Her producing credits include The Ball Method (DGA Jury Prize, NPR-featured, streaming on Kanopy) and Jack and Lou: A Gangster Love Story, an audio drama starring Lisa Kudrow, later adapted into a feature starring Linda Hamilton (2025 Cambria Film Festival).
At Black List Feature Lab, Norton Island Residency, and Almanack October Colony, she developed her feature script, Silicon Valley Girl. She worked as a showrunner’s assistant on CBS’s Watson after the WGA Writers’ Access Support Staff Training Program.
A Gold House Producers Fellow, she shadowed Nina Yang Bongiovi on the feature film, Lucky Lu (2025 Cannes, Toronto, Busan Int’l Film Festivals) and associate produced the feature film, Bedford Park (2026 Sundance Film Festival). Her short film, Silicon Valley Girl is on the festival circuit, including Oscar qualifying LA Shorts International Film Festival.