Daw-Ming Lee is an Emeritus Professor at Taipei National University of the Arts. He served as Director of the MFA Programme and visiting professor at the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University from 2018 to 2022 after retiring from his role as founding Chairperson of the Graduate Institute and Department of Filmmaking at Taipei National University of the Arts. In 2017, Lee was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica (Taiwan) and a visiting professor at the School of Arts, University of Kent (UK). He directed The Suona Player (1988) and produced the award-winning film A Drifting Life (Lin Cheng-sheng, 1995). Over his 20-year filmmaking career, he directed or produced nine feature-length documentaries and nearly 150 television documentary programs, many of which received domestic awards and were showcased at international film festivals.