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Sook-Yin Lee
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Sook-Yin Lee (born 1966) is a Toronto-based filmmaker, musician, actor, and broadcaster. Her feature film writer and directorial debut, Year of the Carnivore, starring Cristin Milioti, premiered at TIFF. In 2014, Lee won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by a Lead Dramatic Actress in Jack. She wrote and performed Unsafe for Canadian Stage, which examined questions of censorship and artistic freedom. She won Best Director and Best Picture at the 2018 Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival for Octavio Is Dead! She is a music recording artist and film score composer, contributing songs to Infinity Pool and Antiviral. Sook-Yin Lee directs and co-writes the live-action movie adaptation o…
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Sook-Yin Lee (born 1966) is a Toronto-based filmmaker, musician, actor, and broadcaster. Her feature film writer and directorial debut, Year of the Carnivore, starring Cristin Milioti, premiered at TIFF. In 2014, Lee won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by a Lead Dramatic Actress in Jack. She wrote and performed Unsafe for Canadian Stage, which examined questions of censorship and artistic freedom. She won Best Director and Best Picture at the 2018 Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival for Octavio Is Dead! She is a music recording artist and film score composer, contributing songs to Infinity Pool and Antiviral. Sook-Yin Lee directs and co-writes the live-action movie adaptation of Chester Brown’s best-selling graphic novel Paying For It, which premiered at TIFF 2024.
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BODY OF WORK
Sook-Yin Lee's Filmography
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Boys Night
as Ed's Mom (voice)
Endless Cookie
as Radio Announcer
Darkest Miriam
as Susu Leung
Close to You
as Emily
Rest and Relax
as Multiple Roles
A Fermenting Woman
as Marielle
299 Queen Street West
Death and Sickness.
as Herself
Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
No Poster
Whispers and Shoulders
as Specter
No Poster
Jack
as Olivia Chow
Toronto Stories
as Willia
Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
as Self (archive footage)
Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
as Sofia
Shortbus
as Sofia
3 Needles
as Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
No Poster
The Art of Woo
as Alessa Woo
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
as Kwahng-Yi
Boy Meets Girl
as Judy
Bad Company
as Waitress
Green Dolphin Beat
as Mai-ling
Mood Indigo
as Jenny
Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
as Narrator (voice)
