Lee Allen Johnson

Lee grew up in San Diego, California. He won a series of awards while still in High School for a film about regret and paranoia called The Victim (2000). He moved to Los Angeles to attend a film school where he won awards for the films he made (Clean, Shiny, and New trilogy) and graduated with honors (Summa Cum Laude). He began working on sets in Los Angeles, first as an unpaid intern, then a production assistant, and eventually a set decorator, gaffer, grip, boom operator, sound mixer, and a cameraman (BBC, A&E, ABC, and Warner Bros.) Then he switched to post-production, being hired as the video/film Head Editor for Alta Vista Films, editing TV commercials and TV broadcast music videos (Jenni Rivera, Time Warner Cable, KFC, Glidden, Yoplait, McDonald's, and Jack in the Box) With the commercial money he made, he left Los Angeles and moved to Thailand, living there for three years exploring the country and it's neighboring countries. Eventually he left Thailand and began working around the world, for eight years, doing various jobs including being an international yoga teacher, a foreigner exchange farmhand, a french artisan cheese-maker, a Florida news anchor, and an Advanced Medical First Responder. These countries included Denmark, Singapore, Ireland, Indonesia, Oman, Cambodia, United Arab Emirates, England, Kenya, Philippines, Australia, Thailand, Canada, and around the USA. In late 2016 he moved from working in Denmark (teaching in a maximum security prison) to Canada, working first for BC Parks as a Park Ranger replacement, then for the Canadian Coast Guard as a Lighthouse Keeper. While living in Denmark he was commissioned to create a video (Vitsoehus) which rekindled his passion for filmmaking, so while working isolated on the island of Balaklava as a Lighthouse Keeper, he reentering the filmmaking world with his first new film in twelve years, Life in a Drop of Water from a Puddle (2017), made exclusively for the International Biodiversity Festival in Portugal (FIIN). He recently moved off Scarlett Point Lighthouse, after a year and a half living in isolation, to be hired by the City of Vancouver, Canada, to help build a bicycle sharing community. He continues making films and also volunteers as a creative consultant to help others with their filmmaking.