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name: "Anita Lee"
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roles: ["Producer"]
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updated: "2026-09-18T01:45:31.203795+00:00"
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# Anita Lee

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95755209, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0496811/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1392174

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Stories We Tell*](https://film.one/film/stories-we-tell.md) (77)

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## Biography

Anita Lee is a Canadian film producer and programming executive. She produced Sarah Polley’s *Stories We Tell* (2012) for the National Film Board of Canada and has served as executive producer on other NFB projects, including *To Kill a Tiger* (2023).

In 1997 Lee co-founded the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. She later became Executive Producer for the NFB’s Ontario Studio and, from 2022, Chief Programming Officer at the Toronto International Film Festival.

*Sources: metacritic.com, collection.nfb.ca, en.wikipedia.org, tiff.net.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Stories We Tell* (2012), Fi1m 77, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/stories-we-tell.md)

## Complete filmography (29)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *There Are No Words* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land* (2024), series, Executive Producer
- *A Mother Apart* (2024), Executive Producer
- *7 Beats Per Minute* (2024), Executive Producer
- *To Kill a Tiger* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Boat People* (2023), Executive Producer
- *The Perfect Story* (2022), Executive Producer
- *The Colour of Ink* (2022), Executive Producer
- *Ever Deadly* (2022), Executive Producer, Producer
- *Have You Eaten?* (2020), Executive Producer
- *I Am Gay* (2020), Executive Producer
- *The Bassinet* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Reviving The Roost* (2019), Executive Producer
- *This Is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth* (2019), Executive Producer
- *What Is Democracy?* (2018), Executive Producer
- *Unarmed Verses* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Ben Heppner: Moving Through Music* (2016), Executive Producer
- *The Apology* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Etlinisigu'niet (Bleed Down)* (2015), Producer
- *Mobilize* (2015), Producer, Executive Producer
- *Sisters and Brothers* (2015), Producer
- *Nimmikaage: She Dances for People* (2015), Producer
- *Stories Sarah Tells* (2013), Producer
- *Stories We Tell* (2012), Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/stories-we-tell.md)
- *Tiger Spirit* (2008), Producer
- *Late Fragment* (2007), Producer
- *Woodland Spirits* (2007), Co-Producer
- *The Art of Woo* (2001), Producer
- *Translating Grace* (1996), Director, Writer, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Attending the TIFF 2026 Tribute Awards](https://film.one/media/person/673377/gallery-7e3f94fd3ba7.jpg) Attending the TIFF 2026 Tribute Awards — Sarran Hamilton, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Anita_Lee_-_Tribute_Awards_-_TIFF_2026.jpg/1280px-Anita_Lee_-_Tribute_Awards_-_TIFF_2026.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lee Dong-Wook, Anita Lee, and Hyun Bin at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/673377/gallery-8e64288e3752.jpg) Lee Dong-Wook, Anita Lee, and Hyun Bin at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival — John Sears, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Lee_Dong-wook%2C_Anita_Lee%2C_and_Hyun_Bin_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Lee_Dong-wook%2C_Anita_Lee%2C_and_Hyun_Bin_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![The cast and crew of Harbin at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Harbin.](https://film.one/media/person/673377/gallery-c6ae5014d2d7.jpg) The cast and crew of Harbin at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Harbin. — Sara Komatsu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/The_cast_and_crew_of_Harbin_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival._01.jpg/1280px-The_cast_and_crew_of_Harbin_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival._01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![The cast and crew of Harbin at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Harbin.](https://film.one/media/person/673377/gallery-9cd68628d51e.jpg) The cast and crew of Harbin at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Harbin. — Sara Komatsu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/The_cast_and_crew_of_Harbin_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival._02.jpg/1280px-The_cast_and_crew_of_Harbin_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival._02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Anita Lee](https://film.one/media/person/673377/gallery-9bb2c922d87f.jpg) Anita Lee — Image via TMDB

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