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.
Shortbus
(Sofia)
299 Queen Street West
Toronto Stories
(Willia)
Jack
(Olivia Chow)
The Art of Woo
(Alessa Woo)
Close to You
(Emily)
Darkest Miriam
(Susu Leung)
Mood Indigo
(Jenny)
A Fermenting Woman
Rest and Relax
(Multiple Roles)
Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
(Self)
Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
(Sofia)
3 Needles
(Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife)
Whispers and Shoulders
(Specter)
Green Dolphin Beat
(Mai-ling)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
(Kwahng-Yi)
Boy Meets Girl
(Judy)
Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
Death and Sickness.
(Herself)
Bad Company
(Waitress)
Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
(Narrator (voice))
No Tickets at the Door
Sliders
(Pat)
Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
(Writer)
Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
(Director)
Year of the Carnivore
(Director)
Year of the Carnivore
(Writer)
Toronto Stories
(Director)
Toronto Stories
(Writer)
Octavio Is Dead!
(Writer)
Octavio Is Dead!
(Director)
Paying For It
(Director)
Paying For It
(Screenplay)
Rest and Relax
(Director)
Rest and Relax
(Editor)
Rest and Relax
(Writer)
Rest and Relax
(Music)
Rest and Relax
(Cinematography)
Rest and Relax
(Producer)
Three Movements
(Story)
Unlocked
(Writer)
Unlocked
(Director)
Girl Cleans Sink
(Director)
Girl Cleans Sink
(Writer)
Three Movements
(Co-Director)
Whispers and Shoulders
(Director)
Death and Sickness.
(Director)
Death and Sickness.
(Director of Photography)