Cindy Lee is a Korean American filmmaker and storyteller. In 2023, she directed and produced her first short documentary, The Stories They Didn’t Tell Us – Nina’s Story, about the stories a refugee Vietnamese American mother didn’t tell her three American-born children, with their separate interviews and perspectives.
In April 2024, Cindy won the Arizona Filmmaker of the Year Award at the Phoenix Film Festival. In 2024, Nina’s Story won Best Documentary Short at the Chicago Indie Film Awards and Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary Short Film at the Lowell Asian American Film Festival.
Cindy’s second short documentary, DnhMuzic: My Muzic, My Journey, was an Official Selection in the 2025 Phoenix Film Festival, the Sparrowland Short Film Festival in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and the New York City Independent Film Festival.
Cindy has published personal essays that express her Korean American voice: “Am I a Conditional American?” in Transformations and “It’s Code” in Superstition Review.