Mee Fung Lee, managing director of Malaysian indie PIK film, is our Woman to Watch today because... she's back in production after a four-year break from her roots with a slate of make-a-difference docs that includes the Malaysia episode of climate-change series, "Unseen", which premieres in April.

The local productions are an extension of Lee's long-running relationship with DW, Germany's publicly funded international broadcaster.

After 28 years in media across Asia, Lee says her "return to my roots in production" ticks two essential boxes – factual & meaningful.

"My heart is in docs, in real stories," she says.

The timing – January 2020 just ahead of Covid-19 – was a challenge but not a deal-breaker, and her all-women team in Kuala Lumpur was more than up to the task of migrating to remote production.

Lee says she draws her motivation from "life itself", the "gazillion experiences" to be had, and her network of "brilliant women who are more than keen to share these experiences".

What would you like people to say about you when you are not in the room?

"She’s fair!"

Are you now where you thought you would be when you were 20?

"I had an idea of what I wanted to become and was fortunate in my career to have had great opportunities along the way, which I seized. I probably didn’t understand it then, but a good Work-Life Balance was what I was after and hoped for."