Lee Preston

During his time and after graduating from the University of Salford, Lee has built up an impressive portfolio of work as a 1st/2nd Assistant Director and Producer. Lee Primarily works on Feature films, generally ranging in budgets of £500k - £7.5m. Lee has also worked on high budget commercials including PwC and WPP (1st AD); soaps including Emmerdale and Coronation Street and many music videos and short films which he has produced including our most recent project 'The Cabin Below A Diamond Sky' starring Tom Lister which is in festivals now. Lee is currently producing e.Motion's newest feature film production 'Little girl'. 

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Lee graduated from the University of salford with a first in Film Production with Alex and has been working in the industry professionally now for 3 years. Lee's most notorious credits include 2nd AD on Alec Baldwins newest feature film '97 Minutes'; 1st AD on 'Tomorrow Morning' starring Dame Joan Collins, Samantha Barks, Henry Goodman, Fleur East and Henry Goodman; and 2nd AD on other features working alongside Elizabeth Hurley, Timothy Spall, Mathew Horne and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

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Lee has stepped up from ADing as a career to producing, and for e.Motion, his role includes finding and developing production concepts, arranging finance, distribution and following through with the management of productions. Lee's value comes in his array of helpful and varied contacts which he brings to productions to make them happen and run as efficiently as possible.

Lee takes pride in "making my productions look 10x their real life budget".