Philip holds a Bachelor of Arts in Directing from the College of Arts at Nihon University in Japan, a Diploma in Management of Executive Development from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a Master of Fine Arts in Producing from The American Film Institute , and Rob Minkoff's Forbidden Kingdom. In 2008, he line produced the Hong Kong portion of Chris Nolan's The Dark Knight. Most recently, he executive produced Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis' Cloud Atlas, which is based on David Mitchell's best seller. This is the most expensive independent film of all time with most of equity investment from Asia. In 2007 Philip Lee set up Javelin Pictures, a production company based in Beijing, with a view to producing viable cross-cultural film projects.
Graduated from the American Film Institute Conservatory in 1993.
