Mike Le Han

Mike Lè Han is an English screenwriter, film director and property developer who has worked in television and on feature 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.

Mike also owns and runs US based Royal Park Construction a property development company based out of Los Angeles, but operates on both the west and east coast of the United States.

Awards Year Festival Title Award Result 2009 Royal Television Society The Great Train Robbery RTS Nominated 2009 Royal Television Society Crimes That Shook Britain RTS Nominated 2010 International Movie Trailer Festival Trailer for Mrs Peppercorn Best trailer for an un-produced movie Winner 2011 HollyShorts Film Festival Mrs Peppercorn's Magical Reading Room Best short film Winner 2011 Olympia International Film Festival – Greece Mrs Peppercorn's Magical Reading Room Best Short Fiction Film – Children's Jury Award Winner

Filmography Director Credits Year Title Details Broadcast 1997 Life – Short Film Completed Film Festivals 1999 Depart – Short Film Completed Film Festivals 2000 Walkabout Completed Film Festivals 2000 York Completed ITV 2002 Beyond the Blade Completed ITV 2003 Cook's Last Voyage Completed ITV 2003 Beyond The Moors Murders Completed ITV 2004 Hawk Speed Completed ITV4 2007 Fast Bikes Magazine DVD Completed DVD 2007 Black Pre-production TBC 2008 Shipman Completed The History Channel 2008 Stephanie Slater Completed The History Channel 2008 The Russell Murders Completed The History Channel 2008 Beverley Allitt Completed The History Channel 2008 Sarah Payne Completed The History Channel 2009 The Great Train Robbery Completed The History Channel 2009 The Brinks Mat Heist Completed The History Channel 2009 Security Express Heist Completed The History Channel 2009 Millennium Dome Diamond Heist Completed The History Channel 2009 Tunbridge Securitas Heist Completed The History Channel 2010 Britain's Biggest Heists Completed Crime & Investigation Network 2011 Mrs Peppercorn's Magical Reading Room Completed Worldwide film festivals 2013 Hellraiser: Origins Completed Pitch to reboot the franchise 2015 Adore Me Commercial

Second Unit Director Year Title Details Broadcast 2008 Martina Cole's 'Lady Killers' Completed ITV 3

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

Writer Credits Year Title Type 1997 Life Short Film 1999 Depart Short Film 2000 Walkabout Short Film 2000 York TV 2002 Beyond the Blade TV 2003 Cook's Last Voyage TV 2003 Beyond The Moors Murders TV 2004 Hawk Speed TV 2004 VIMM City TV 2005 Case of the Green Wallpaper TV 2006 Sapien Short Film 2007 Black Short Film 2007 Best Day's Short Film 2008 Black Shallow Creek Short Film 2011 Mrs Peppercorn's Magical Reading Room Short Film 2012 The Peppercorn Chronicles Feature Trilogy 2013 The Surge Feature Film 2014 ARK Feature Film 2014 TITAN Feature Film