
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.
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Sook-Yin Lee

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Paying for It
2025

Darkest Miriam
2025

Endless Cookie
2025

Rest and Relax
2024

Close to You
2024

A Fermenting Woman
2024

299 Queen Street West
2023

Death and Sickness.
2020

Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
2019

Octavio Is Dead!
2018
Whispers and Shoulders
2015
Jack
2013

Year of the Carnivore
2009

Toronto Stories
2008

Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
2008

Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
2007

Shortbus
2006
Unlocked
2005

3 Needles
2005
Girl Cleans Sink
2004
The Art of Woo
2001

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2001

Boy Meets Girl
1998

Bad Company
1995
Green Dolphin Beat
1994

Mood Indigo
1993
