Flying Cloud Productions is a Vancouver-based production company developing and producing feature films, documentaries, and series with cinematic ambition and international reach. Founded by Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Leon Lee, the company creates stories where truth, power, and human consequence collide.
A body of work spanning narrative and documentary, recognized for cinematic force, international reach, and real-world impact.
Flying Cloud Productions is building a selective slate of projects with international scope and a strong cinematic point of view.
In Development
Feature Film
A celebrated Chinese transplant surgeon sent to London to undermine a tribunal investigating forced organ harvesting must choose between telling the truth and condemning himself, or remaining silent and living with blood on his hands.
In Post-Production
Feature Documentary
A brave group of ordinary people devise a shortwave radio strategy to break through China's censorship system, risking everything to deliver uncensored news across the border.
In Development
Feature Film
After Tiananmen tears two classmates onto opposite sides of history, one escapes to Silicon Valley and creates Freegate, the first tool to break China's Great Firewall, only to face the other, now a rising architect of the regime's censorship machine.
In Development
Limited Series
The woman who built China's all-seeing eye can find any face on earth, except her own mother's, the one the state stole from her as a child and will do anything to keep hidden.
Based in Vancouver and working internationally, Flying Cloud develops films and series that bring political urgency and human consequence into sharp dramatic focus.
Flying Cloud Productions is a Vancouver-based production company led by writer, director, and producer Leon Lee. Working across fiction and nonfiction, the company develops and produces films and series with cinematic ambition, international scope, and a strong point of view.
Its work is known for combining investigative rigor, emotional depth, and urgent contemporary subject matter, with stories that examine the collision between private conscience and larger systems of power.
Leon Lee accepting the Peabody Award for Human Harvest: China's Illegal Organ Trade · New York
"Amazing film… A powerful tale of human suffering, compassion and perseverance."— LA Times
"For its exposé of highly profitable, monstrous system of forced organ donation, Human Harvest: China's Illegal Organ Trade receives a Peabody Award."— Peabody Award
"As astonishing sequence of events…"— BBC World Service 'Outlook'
"A potent documentary… It's an important story, made more intense by its tight focus."— The New York Times
"Two extraordinary Canadian films — one a chilling documentary, the other a riveting drama based on its findings."— The Boston Globe
"Human Harvest 'captures the horror of the story through credible testimony and proactive research.'"— UK Association for International Broadcasting Award
For industry inquiries
Flying Cloud welcomes inquiries from producers, financiers, commissioning editors, distributors, sales agents, and representatives interested in collaboration, co-production, or project engagement.
