Sook-Yin Lee

Born: None

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.


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Shortbus

as Sofia
Released: 2006-10-04

In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled,...

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Close to You

as Emily
Released: 2024-08-16

A trans man returns to his hometown for the first time in years. On his journey, he confronts...

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch

as Kwahng-Yi
Released: 2001-07-20

Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to...

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3 Needles

as Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
Released: 2005-09-09

A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor schemes to pass his...

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Bad Company

as Waitress
Released: 1995-01-20

CIA operative Nelson Crowe is tasked with a deadly assignment: infiltrate a highly secret...

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299 Queen Street West

as uncredited
Released: 2023-03-13

During the rise of the music video era in the 80s, Canada launched "MuchMusic", a low budget TV...

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Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'

as Sofia
Released: 2007-03-13

A look at the unusual process used in the making of the film Shortbus (2006) featuring...

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Darkest Miriam

as Susu Leung
Released: 2024-06-09

Miriam Gordon lives in a fog of grief while working in a downtown public library branch. When a...

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Boy Meets Girl

as Judy
Released: 1998-09-17

Angelina is a shy and whimsical Italian waitress who has moved from Italy to Canada to fulfill a...

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Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band

as Self
Released: 2008-04-07

Undeniably one of the most important and influential gay music acts in the last twenty years,...

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Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls

as uncredited
Released: 2019-11-01

A documentary discussing the legacy and impact of the famous Crocks N Rolls bar, a music club in...

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Toronto Stories

as Willia
Released: 2008-01-01

Various lives intersect over the course of 48 hours in Canada's largest and most culturally...

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Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1990-01-01

A comedy of obsession and assimilation that charts the true account of a first generation...

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Mood Indigo

as Jenny
Released: 1993-01-11

Suspense tale -- a pilot to a prospective series -- involving a criminal psychologist,...

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Rest and Relax

as Multiple Roles
Released: 2024-06-22

REST AND RELAX is a film oddity about the anxieties of our time made by and starring...

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Death and Sickness.

as Herself
Released: 2020-11-27

Sook-Yin and Dylan are currently holed up in a house in Toronto capturing what happens on...

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A Fermenting Woman

as uncredited
Released: 2024-03-23

On the brink of getting fired from her restaurant by new owners, visionary chef and master...

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Sliders

as Pat
First aired: 1995-03-22

In his basement in San Francisco, boy-genius Quinn Mallory unlocks the doorway to an infinite...

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