Marli Lee is a writer/director.
At age 14, she began writing for The Buffalo News, covering the local music scene and interviewing bands like Panic! At The Disco and Paramore. After college, she turned to Film and TV, honing her skills in development and production before writing and directing the horror short film, KNOCK KNOCK, which premiered at the 2023 Sitges Fantastic Film Festival. She has written for Vertigo Entertainment, Red Hour Productions, Lee Daniels Entertainment and is in active development on her directional debut.
Here’s some of her favorite things in no particular order. Please talk to her about them when you see her! She’d love to know yours:
Favorite writer/ directors: Guillermo Del Toro, Wes Craven, The Coen Brothers.
Favorite movies: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), El Espinazo del Diablo (2001), No Country For Old Men (2007), El Orfanato (2007), IT Chapter 1 (2017),
Favorite books: Winesburg, OH by Sherwood Anderson, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Favorite records: In Rainbows by Radiohead, Anónimo by Juana Aguirre
Favorite Foods: Mole Negro, Croissants, Cannolis.
KNOCK KNOCK
Home alone, a woman is tormented by an evil entity that feeds on loneliness.
SING ME A SONG
a Christmas Horror Story in six parts
If you shut her out, she’ll shut you in.
Watch the full short on Instagram.