Sook-Yin Lee
Sook-Yin Lee (born 1966) 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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Movies (30)
Boys Night
2026 · Ed's Mom (voice)
Endless Cookie
2025 · Radio Announcer
Darkest Miriam
2025 · Susu Leung
Pagando por ello
2025 · Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
Close to You
2024 · Emily
Rest and Relax
2024 · Multiple Roles, Director, Editor, Writer, Music, Cinematography, Producer
A Fermenting Woman
2024 · Marielle
299 Queen Street West
2023
Death and Sickness.
2020 · Herself, Director, Director of Photography
Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
2019
Octavio Is Dead!
2018 · Writer, Director, Original Music Composer
Whispers and Shoulders
2015 · Specter, Director
Three Movements
2013 · Story, Co-Director
Jack
2013 · Olivia Chow
Year of the Carnivore
2009 · Director, Writer, Original Music Composer
Toronto Stories
2008 · Willia, Director, Writer
Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
2008 · Self (archive footage)
Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
2007 · Sofia
Shortbus: Tu Última Parada
2006 · Sofia
Unlocked
2005 · Writer, Director
3 Needles
2005 · Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
Girl Cleans Sink
2004 · Director, Writer
The Art of Woo
2001 · Alessa Woo
Hedwig y la pulgada furiosa
2001 · Kwahng-Yi
Boy Meets Girl
1998 · Judy
Bad Company
1995 · Waitress
Green Dolphin Beat
1994 · Mai-ling
Mood Indigo
1993 · Jenny
Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
1990 · Narrator (voice), Writer, Director
No Tickets at the Door
