Barb Lee

Barb Lee is the founder and President of both Point Made Films, a documentary film company that focuses on American identity, and Point Made Learning, a consulting company that, using the stories of Point Made Films, provides organizations with creative, story-based education regarding issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. 

Barb is the director, producer and writer of the documentary film, Adopted, a feature length documentary that explores the grit rather than the glamour  of international adoption. She is the executive producer of  The Prep School Negro, a documentary that reveals how costly scholarships can be for young African American scholars who attend some of the most elite prep schools in the country;  I’m Not Racist… Am I? a documentary that follows, verité style, 12 New York high school students who commit to completing a year of anti-racism training together, and In 500 Words or Less, a film that looks at equity, or the lack thereof, in the world of college admissions. Point Made Films is also a producing partner for the independent feature film, The Birth of a Nation written, produced, directed, and starring Nate Parker.

Barb has served as a consultant on numerous documentaries, including Overburden, a documentary about systemic oppression and poverty in the Appalachian Mountains; Without a Fight, a film about the role of youth soccer in the Kenyan slum of Kibera; and Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, a documentary that reports the heart-breaking aftermath of some 500 infants who were secretly adopted during Argentina’s Dirty War, and many others for which she has taken no credit.

Prior to creating her own companies, Barb worked as a freelance video writer and producer, a video production teacher at The NC School of Science and Math (still her most favorite job) and she also worked in development and writing at 20th Century Fox and Fox TV.  Her first movie job was at Paramount Studios where she was a writing intern for Star Trek:  The Next Generation.

She has dual degrees in Broadcast Journalism and Speech Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she has volunteered in numerous leadership roles including Chair of the UNC Board of Visitors, Vice-Chair of the UNC Performing Arts Board of Advisors, Chair of ACRED (Alumni Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity) and as a member of UNC’s Hussman School of Media and Journalism’s Board of Visitors. She is the 2015 recipient of UNC’s Alumni Diversity Award, the university’s highest honor for work in racial justice and was the 2016 commencement speaker for the UNC School of Media and Journalism. She served on the foundation board for The John Jay School of Justice from 2018-2021 and currently serves as Co-Chair of the board of directors for The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.