Sook-Yin Lee
Sook-Yin Lee 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.
Shortbus
as SofiaIn post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled,...
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
as Kwahng-YiRaised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to...
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Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
as SofiaA look at the unusual process used in the making of the film Shortbus (2006) featuring...
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Close to You
as EmilyA trans man returns to his hometown for the first time in years. On his journey, he confronts...
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Mood Indigo
as JennySuspense tale -- a pilot to a prospective series -- involving a criminal psychologist,...
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299 Queen Street West
as uncreditedDuring the rise of the music video era in the 80s, Canada launched "MuchMusic", a low budget TV...
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Bad Company
as WaitressCIA operative Nelson Crowe is tasked with a deadly assignment: infiltrate a highly secret...
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3 Needles
as Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's WifeA three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor schemes to pass his...
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Darkest Miriam
as Susu LeungMiriam Gordon lives in a fog of grief while working in a downtown public library branch. When a...
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Toronto Stories
as WilliaVarious lives intersect over the course of 48 hours in Canada's largest and most culturally...
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Boy Meets Girl
as JudyAngelina is a shy and whimsical Italian waitress who has moved from Italy to Canada to fulfill a...
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A Fermenting Woman
as uncreditedOn the brink of getting fired from her restaurant by new owners, visionary chef and master...
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Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
as Narrator (voice)A comedy of obsession and assimilation that charts the true account of a first generation...
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Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
as SelfUndeniably one of the most important and influential gay music acts in the last twenty years,...
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Rest and Relax
as Multiple RolesREST AND RELAX is a film oddity about the anxieties of our time made by and starring...
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Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
as uncreditedA documentary discussing the legacy and impact of the famous Crocks N Rolls bar, a music club in...
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Death and Sickness.
as HerselfSook-Yin and Dylan are currently holed up in a house in Toronto capturing what happens on...
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Sliders
as PatIn his basement in San Francisco, boy-genius Quinn Mallory unlocks the doorway to an infinite...
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