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    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.

    Movies

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    Close to You
    41 %|Aug 16, 2024
    Drama, Romance
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    Rest and Relax
    0 %|Jun 22, 2024
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    Darkest Miriam
    0 %|Jun 9, 2024
    Drama, Romance, Mystery
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    A Fermenting Woman
    65 %|Mar 23, 2024
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    299 Queen Street West
    0 %|Mar 13, 2023
    Documentary, History, Music
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    Death and Sickness.
    0 %|Nov 27, 2020
    Documentary, Drama
    actor
    Whispers and Shoulders
    0 %|Jan 1, 2015
    actor
    Jack
    70 %|Mar 10, 2013
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    Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
    45 %|Apr 7, 2008
    Documentary, Music
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    Toronto Stories
    39 %|Jan 1, 2008
    Drama
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    Shortbus
    62.85 %|Oct 4, 2006
    Romance, Drama, Comedy
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    3 Needles
    63 %|Sep 9, 2005
    Drama
    actor
    The Art of Woo
    10 %|Sep 9, 2001
    Romance, Comedy
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    Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    74 %|Jul 20, 2001
    Comedy, Music, Drama
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    Boy Meets Girl
    0 %|Sep 17, 1998
    Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
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    Bad Company
    48 %|Jan 20, 1995
    Action, Crime, Romance, Thriller
    actor
    Green Dolphin Beat
    100 %|Jun 27, 1994
    Crime, TV Movie, Comedy
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    Mood Indigo
    0 %|Jan 11, 1993
    Crime, Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
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    No Tickets at the Door
    0 %|Invalid Date
    Documentary

    Series

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    Sliders
    75.96000000000001 %|Mar 22, 1995
    Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy