Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740
(2025)
Umělá inteligence v dokumentárním filmu: etika deepfakeů.
DokRevue.
ISSN 2787-90111
Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740
(2024)
Deepfakes in documentary film production: images of deception in the representation of the real.
Studies in Documentary Film, 18 (2).
pp. 108-129.
ISSN 1750-3280
doi: 10.1080/17503280.2023.2284680
Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740
(2023)
Cinema Ex Machina.
Sight and Sound.
Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740, Bashford-Rogers, T. and Keppel-Palmer, M.
(2021)
The digital resurrection of Margaret Thatcher: creative, technological and legal dilemmas in the use of deepfakes in screen drama.
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 27 (4).
pp. 954-973.
ISSN 1354-8565
doi: 10.1177/13548565211030452
(Special Issue: 'The Digital Face and Deepfakes on Screen')
Sexton, M. and Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740
(2019)
Fargo: seeing the significance of style in television
poetics?
Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies, 14 (3).
pp. 343-361.
ISSN 1749-6020
doi: 10.1177/1749602019853792
Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740
(2019)
Improvisation as a research methodology: Exploring links between filmmakers’ practice and traditions of enquiry across the academy.
Media Practice and Education, 20 (2).
pp. 134-146.
ISSN 2574-1136
doi: 10.1080/25741136.2019.1605675
Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740
(2016)
Cinema and authenticity: anxieties in the making of historical film.
Journal of Media Practice, 17 (2-3).
pp. 199-212.
ISSN 2574-1144
doi: 10.1080/14682753.2016.1248190
Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740
(2026)
Generative AI and the documentary archive: creative opportunities and ethical abuses.
In: Kääpä, P. and Sills-Jones, D. (eds.)
Documentary in the Age of AI: Creativity, Power, Technology.
Documentary Film Cultures, 5.
Peter Lang, Oxford.
ISBN 9781803748887
doi: 10.3726/b22530
(In Press)
Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740
(2025)
Artificial Intelligence in documentary filmmaking: the ethics of deepfakes.
In: Piotrowska, A. (ed.)
The Ethics of Documentary Film.
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 296-318.
ISBN 9781399534857
(In Press)
Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740
(2019)
Many ways of directing a film: teaching the ‘modes of creative practice’.
In: Mourao, M. D., Semerdjiev, S., Mello, C. and Taylor, A. (eds.)
The 21st Century Film, TV and Media School Book – Volume 2: Directing the future.
CILECT - the International Association of Film and Television Schools, Sofia, pp. 28-39.
ISBN 9786197358087
Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740 and Byrne, S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8607-2429,
(2026)
AI skills in film and television production.
Report.
Synthetic Media Research Network
doi: 10.48683/1926.00131465
Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740,
(2025)
Sector briefing: AI in the Film and Television Sector, Report commissioned by Pavis Consultancy to inform the report to UNESCO, 'Re-centering culture in AI policy and practice'.
Report.
Synthetic Media Research Network
pp14.
Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740 and Pavis, M.,
(2025)
Response to the Intellectual Property Office consultation on
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence.
Report.
Synthetic Media Research Network
doi: 10.48683/1926.00127103
Pavis, M. and Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740,
(2025)
AI human avatars: opportunities and risks for UK businesses and services.
Report.
Synthetic Media Research Network, Replique
pp16.
doi: 10.48683/1926.00127435
Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740,
(2024)
Synthetic Media Research Network — written evidence (ACT0011) to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee inquiry: Scaling Up: AI and creative tech.
Scaling Up - AI and Creative Tech.
Report.
UK Parliament, Westminster.
pp7.
Purse, L., Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740, Philip, A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2186-0619 and Ghosh, S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6042-5496,
(2023)
What can the industry and Government do to ensure British film and high-end television can adapt for the future?
Report.
UK Parliament, Westminster.
pp4.
Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740,
(2022)
Evidence to the inquiry of the Communications and Digital Committee of the House of Lords, ‘A Creative Future’.
A Creative Future. CRF0008.
Report.
UK Parliament, London.
Oliva, M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7444-5203, Bhattacharya, B., Ferryman, J., Grindrod, J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8684-974X, Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740 and Lewis, R., eds.
(2026)
Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence - transformations, challenges, and critical futures.
Digital Culture and Education, 16 (3).
Digital Culture and Education.
(ISSN: 1836-8301)
Bode, L., Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740 and Golding, D., eds.
(2021)
The digital face and deepfakes on screen.
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 27 (4).
Sage Publications, pp. 849-854.
(Special Issue)
Sexton, M. and Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740
(2021)
Seeing it on television: televisuality in the contemporary U.S. 'High-End' series.
Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp192.
ISBN 9781501359422
Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740
(2019)
Modes of Creative Practice in the directing of independent fiction films.
PhD thesis, University of Reading.
doi: 10.48683/1926.00104350
Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740
(2022)
The Burning.
[Video]
(Sightlines: Filmmaking in the Academy Issue 4 2022)
Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740
(2026)
Written evidence on behalf of the Synthetic Media Research Network to the Business and Trade Select Committee inquiry, ‘Artificial Intelligence, business and the future of the workforce’.
UK Parliament.