** HONORABLE MENTION ** for ‘One Day’ at MIDWEST POETRY VIDEO FEST, 2026

**Award nomination for Best Gay Porn Short for ‘Lee in Leatherland’ Porn Film Festival Vienna, Vienna 2026**

*FINALIST, IRIS PRIZE LGBTQ+ FILM FESTIVAL 2025 for 'ONE DAY', 'DOG BOY' and 'UNCHARTED (THE CARTOGRAPHER) (2025) *

*WINNER of BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM for 'SEE ME' (2021) at Ealing Film Festival 2022*

* SHORTLISTED FOR OUTSPOKEN PRIZE FOR POETRY BEST FILM 2023 for 'SEE ME' (2021) *

*SELECTED FOR THE ONE MINUTE SERIES 'FIXATIONS BY BUTT MAGAZINE 2024*

Dr Lee Campbell is an artist, performance poet, experimental filmmaker, writer, Senior Lecturer at University of the Arts London (UAL) and curator/founder of Homo Humour, the first of its kind project on contemporary queer male film and moving image practices that explore humour and LGBTQ+ storytelling and has screened all over the world since 2020. He is also founder of POW! Play on Words, a vibrant, boundary-pushing poetry, film and performance platform which he currently co-curates with Colin B. Osborn.

RECENT SELECTED AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
 
f2026 ** HONORABLE MENTION ** for ‘One Day’ at MIDWEST POETRY VIDEO FEST, 2026
2026 Award nomination for Best Gay Porn Short for ‘Lee in Leatherland’ Porn Film Festival Vienna, Vienna
2025 Finalist for ‘One Day’, ‘Uncharted (The Cartographer)’, and ‘Dog Boy’, Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Cardiff, Wales
2025 Finalist for ‘One Day’, Absurd Arthouse Film Festival, Isle of Sheppey, U.K
2024 Finalist for ‘Hot Mess’ and ‘STD’, Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Cardiff, Wales
2024 Runner-up, Best Animation for ‘Reclaiming My Voice’, Gilbert Baker Film Festival, USA
2024 Nominee for Best Experimental Film for ‘Periscope’, Fisheye Film Festival, Bucks, U.K
2024 Nominee for Best Experimental Film for ‘Proper Shave’, Fisheye Film Festival, Bucks, U.K
2024 Nominee for Best Experimental Film for ‘Press Eject’, Fisheye Film Festival, Bucks, U.K
2023 Finalist for ‘Periscope’, Deanna Tulley Multimedia Prize 2023
2023 Nominee for Best Experimental Short for Michael in the Mountains’, Appalachian Queer Film Festival, Huntington, West Virginia, USA
2023 Finalist for ‘Slang Bang’ and ‘Rufus’, Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Cardiff, Wales
2023 Finalist for ‘Bears with Bananas and Bubbles in Their Boxers’ The Artists Spoken Word Competition, NYC, USA
2023 Winner of Best Micro Short for 'The Colour of His Eyes', Under Appreciated Film Festival 2023
2023 Semi-Finalist for 'Head Boy', Neum Underwater Film Festival, Neum, Bosnia
2023 Honorable Mention for 'SEE ME', Los Angeles Underground Film Forum, Los Angeles, USA  
2023 Honorable Mention for 'SEE ME' and 'Juniper Park', Experimental Forum, Los Angeles, USA
2023 Shortlisted for BEST POETRY FILM for ‘SEE ME’, Out-Spoken Poetry Prize 2023, Southbank Centre, London
2023 WINNER of BEST ANIMATED SHORT for ‘Rufus’ at The Rooster Film Festival, Portland, USA 2
2023 Honorable Mention for 'Let Rip: Teenage Scrapbook' at REELPOETRY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL Houston, Texas, USA
2022 WINNER of BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM for ‘SEE ME’, Ealing Film Festival, London
2022 Finalist for ‘Apple of My Eye’, Deanna Tulley Multimedia Prize 2022
2022 Finalist for ‘See Shells’, Drumshanbo Written Word Weekend Poetry Film Competition, Drumshanbo, Ireland
2022 Juan Downey International Contest (Finalist), Chile 
2022 Hombres Video Poetry Award (Finalist) for ‘SEE ME’, SlamContemporary, Italy  
2022 Finalist for ‘Rufus’, MicroMania Film Festival 2022, Buffalo, NY, USA
2022 Finalist for ‘The Perfect Crime: A Doggy Whodunnit’, Absurd Art House Film Festival 2022
2022 Finalist for ‘Reclaiming my Voice’, Vesuvius International Film Festival
2022 Honorable Special Mention Award, Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival
2021 Best Psychedelic Fantasy film winner for 'See Me' (2020), Retro Avant Garde Film Festival NYC, 2021
2021 Semi-Finalist, Serbest International Film Festival 2021
2021 Honorable Mention, Splice Film Festival, New York
2021 Nominee for Best Original Concept and Best Atmosphere Independent Horror Movie Awards 2021
2021 Honorable Mention Award for 'See Me' (2020), Screener Short Films 
2021 Kosice International Film Festival (Finalist)
2021 Best Kent Film nominee for ‘Peer’ (2020), Margate Bookie Film Festival
2021 Honorable Special Mention Award, Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival
2020 Semi-Finalist (3rd place winner), Splice Film Festival, New York
2019 Special Mention Award, London-Worldwide Comedy Short Film Festival