Mike Lè Han


Mike Lè Han is an English screenwriter and film director who has worked in television and on short films. He has a background in post production and visual effects. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Career

Lè Han directed many outside broadcast, drama and docudrama productions between 1997 and 2009. His work was nominated for two RTS Awards in 2009 when he directed The Great Train Robbery and Crimes That Shook Britain for Manchester-based production company Title Role. Le Han has also directed several high-profile commercials for varying car manufactures.
In 2010 Lè Han co-wrote with wife Helen Lè Han Mrs Peppercorn's Magical Reading Room and completed filming in May of the same year. The trailer for the film won Best Trailer for an un-produced movie at the International Movie Trailer Festival in Los Angeles. The finished short with crime-novelist Martina Cole functioning as executive producer premiered March 2011 to an invite-only audience at BAFTA in London and is being reworked into a feature.
In January 2011, Lè Han was featured as a director to watch in MovieScope Magazine and then in the April edition of Variety in the UK and USA.
In August 2011 Mrs Peppercorn's Magical Reading Room won Best Short Film by unanimous vote at the prestigious HollyShorts Film Festival in Los Angeles. In the same month at the request of Disney Animation Studios, he screened the film to executives and creatives at their Burbank facilities. In December 2011 it won Best Short Fiction Film at the Olympia International Film Festival in Greece.
On Halloween Lè Han released online a trailer to accompany a pitch to reboot the Hellraiser franchise. The video went viral.

Filmography

Director Credits
YearTitleDetailsBroadcast
1997Life – Short FilmCompletedFilm Festivals
1999Depart – Short FilmCompletedFilm Festivals
2000WalkaboutCompletedFilm Festivals
2000YorkCompletedITV
2002Beyond the BladeCompletedITV
2003Cook's Last VoyageCompletedITV
2003Beyond The Moors MurdersCompletedITV
2004Hawk SpeedCompletedITV4
2007Fast Bikes Magazine DVDCompletedDVD
2007BlackPre-productionTBC
2008ShipmanCompletedThe History Channel
2008Stephanie SlaterCompletedThe History Channel
2008The Russell MurdersCompletedThe History Channel
2008Beverley AllittCompletedThe History Channel
2008Sarah PayneCompletedThe History Channel
2009The Great Train RobberyCompletedThe History Channel
2009The Brinks Mat HeistCompletedThe History Channel
2009Security Express HeistCompletedThe History Channel
2009Millennium Dome Diamond HeistCompletedThe History Channel
2009Tunbridge Securitas HeistCompletedThe History Channel
2010Britain's Biggest HeistsCompletedCrime & Investigation Network
2011Mrs Peppercorn's Magical Reading RoomCompletedWorldwide film festivals
2013Hellraiser: OriginsCompletedPitch to reboot the franchise
2015Adore MeCommercial-

Second Unit Director
YearTitleDetailsBroadcast
2008Martina Cole's 'Lady Killers'CompletedITV 3

Producer Credits
YearTitle
2000York
2001Expedition Global Eagle
2002Beyond The Blade
2003Cook's Last Voyage
2003Beyond The Moors Murders
2004Hawk Speed

Writer Credits
YearTitleType
1997LifeShort Film
1999DepartShort Film
2000WalkaboutShort Film
2000YorkTV
2002Beyond the BladeTV
2003Cook's Last VoyageTV
2003Beyond The Moors MurdersTV
2004Hawk SpeedTV
2004VIMM CityTV
2005Case of the Green WallpaperTV
2006SapienShort Film
2007BlackShort Film
2007Best Day'sShort Film
2008Black Shallow CreekShort Film
2011Mrs Peppercorn's Magical Reading RoomShort Film
2012The Peppercorn ChroniclesFeature Trilogy
2013The SurgeFeature Film
2014ARKFeature Film
2014TITANFeature Film