Oct 19, 2023
Award-winning Queer Indie filmmaker Quentin Lee just released his latest feature THE LAST SUMMER OF NATHAN LEE promising to take audiences on an emotional journey. The film which explores the story of a Chinese American teenager who finds out that he has brain cancer right before he turns 18.
THE LAST SUMMER OF NATHAN LEE is a compelling narrative that
delves into the life of Nathan Lee played by Harrison Xu
(Bloodhounds/Netflix), a Chinese American teenager on the cusp
of adulthood. Just days before his 18th birthday, Nathan is
confronted with the harsh reality of a brain cancer diagnosis.
Faced with a limited amount of time, he makes a life-altering
decision to live each day with an unmatched zeal for life
while also refusing to die a virgin.
Knowing that his gay best friend, Dash (Matthew Mitchell Espinosa),
wants to become a filmmaker, Nathan offers himself as a
documentary subject to Dash, who also happens to be in love
with Nathan. Nathan and Dash decide to document as much of his
remaining life as possible. Without reservation, Nathan
experiments sexually and falls in love with Lorelei played
by Natasha Tina Liu (Here and Now/HBO), another high school
friend. As Nathan realizes he cannot reciprocate Dash’s true
love, he decides to marry Dash, a Dreamer Immigrant, and gifts him
an American citizenship.
Quentin Lee - “Growing up in the 80s, I loved teen movies from
that era which unfortunately not only have no Asian Pacific
Islander characters but sometimes even have racist stereotypes like
Long Duk Dong from Sixteen Candles, traumatizing API teens of
my generation,” said Director Quentin Lee. “Even
to this day, the dearth of API teen movies has inspired me to
create Last Summer of Nathan Lee that not only reflect but is
made for today’s generation of BIPOC teens in North America. I
hope it can be a Pretty in Pink that my own son, now only 7,
will grow up to watch as a teenager in the future.”
Quentin Lee is the winner of the 2020 Roddenberry Foundation
Impact Awards for TV creators, a member of the Producers Guild
of America, Canadian Media Producers Association and Academy of
Television Arts & Sciences (Directors and Producers Peer
Group), Quentin Lee is a multimedia creator and has directed
and produced over ten feature films and three TV series. His first
feature Shopping
For Fangs (co-directed with Justin Lin) premiered at Toronto
International Film Festival and became a cult classic as part
of the Asian American New Wave Class of 1997. As a creator, he
is currently developing Rez Comedy, the first Canadian Indigenous
stand-up comedy TV series.
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