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Sook-Yin Lee

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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.

Known For

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Sliders
Pat
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Shortbus
Sofia
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Kwahng-Yi
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Bad Company
Waitress
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Close to You
Emily
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Darkest Miriam
Susu Leung
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Boy Meets Girl
Judy
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3 Needles
Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
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Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
Sofia
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Green Dolphin Beat
Mai-ling

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