
Sook-Yin Lee
Biography
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.
Filmography

Darkest Miriam

Endless Cookie

Close to You

Rest and Relax

A Fermenting Woman

299 Queen Street West

Death and Sickness.

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

Whispers and Shoulders

Jack

Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band

Toronto Stories

Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'

Shortbus

3 Needles

The Art of Woo

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Boy Meets Girl

Bad Company

Green Dolphin Beat

Mood Indigo

Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
