Upon graduating from the University of Chicago, DENNIS LEE joined Teach for America, a non-profit organization that places recent college graduates in rural and urban school districts experiencing chronic teacher shortages.  During his years in the classroom, Dennis taught kindergarten, 1st grade, and co-founded an art-based charter school for at-risk middle students in Houston, Texas.  He then moved to New York City in the fall of 1999, to attend Columbia University’s M.F.A Film Program.  While at Columbia, he has written several feature scripts and has directed a number of short films.  Completed in the spring of 2003, his thesis film, Jesus Henry Christ, has received numerous awards including winning Best Short Film at the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen as well as the Silver Medal at the 2004 Student Academy Awards and the DGA East Coast Student Filmmaker Award.  In 2006, Dennis won the prestigious ABC/DGA Directing Fellowship, giving him the opportunity to shadow select DGA directors on television sets like “Brothers & Sisters” and “Alias.”  Most recently, Dennis has completed post-production on his first feature-length film, Fireflies In The Garden, which filmed in Austin, Texas, and stars Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, Emily Watson, and Willem Dafoe.  He currently lives and works in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.