June Lee is a Korean American filmmaker based in New York and Seoul. A graduate of the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), her thesis short Floating received the Grand Prix at the 38th Tokyo International Film Festival and was selected as the Festival Choice at the Seoul Independent Film Festival. Her previous works have been supported by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) and the CJ Cultural Foundation.
Her films explore the tension between individual experience and collective history, often through characters shaped by separation and migration. She is drawn to restrained, poetic storytelling that attends to the textures of memory.
Lee is developing her debut feature, The Invisible Land of Love. As a 2025 Korea-France Academy Fellow, she presented the project at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and received the MPA Pitching Award at the Busan International Film Festival (Asian Contents & Film Market). The project was selected for the 2026 CJ x TIFF K-Story Fund program.