Sook-Yin Lee

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.

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Sook-Yin Lee Movies

  • 2006
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    Shortbus

    Shortbus

    6.285 2006 HD

    In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled, personally, romantically, and sexually, at Shortbus, an...

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  • 2023
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    299 Queen Street West

    299 Queen Street West

    1 2023 HD

    During the rise of the music video era in the 80s, Canada launched "MuchMusic", a low budget TV network that revolutionized how the world's biggest...

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  • 2008
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    Toronto Stories

    Toronto Stories

    3.9 2008 HD

    Various lives intersect over the course of 48 hours in Canada's largest and most culturally diverse city.

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  • 2013
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    Jack

    Jack

    7 2013 HD

    NDP Leader Jack Layton was fluently bilingual, glib, sometimes flashy, full of energy and always media-friendly. He loved to entertain and uplift his...

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  • 2001
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    The Art of Woo

    The Art of Woo

    1 2001 HD

    Alessa Woo (Lee) is an ambitious art dealer who meets her match in gifted painter Ben Crowchild (Beach) in this romantic comedy.

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  • 2024
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    Close to You

    Close to You

    4.375 2024 HD

    A trans man returns to his hometown for the first time in years. On his journey, he confronts his relationship with his family, reunites with a first...

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  • 2024
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    Darkest Miriam

    Darkest Miriam

    1 2024 HD

    Miriam Gordon lives in a fog of grief while working in a downtown public library branch. When a burgeoning love-affair coincides with her receiving a...

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  • 1993
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    Mood Indigo

    Mood Indigo

    1 1993 HD

    Suspense tale -- a pilot to a prospective series -- involving a criminal psychologist, struggling to rebuild his life after his wife is brutally...

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  • 2024
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    A Fermenting Woman

    A Fermenting Woman

    6.5 2024 HD

    On the brink of getting fired from her restaurant by new owners, visionary chef and master fermenter Marielle Lau (Sook-Yin Lee) develops an...

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  • 2024
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    Rest and Relax

    Rest and Relax

    1 2024 HD

    REST AND RELAX is a film oddity about the anxieties of our time made by and starring artist/musicians Sook-Yin Lee and Dylan Gamble. Four stories...

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  • 2008
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    Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band

    Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band

    4.5 2008 HD

    Undeniably one of the most important and influential gay music acts in the last twenty years, Pansy Division pioneered the "queercore" genre long...

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  • 2007
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    Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'

    Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'

    6.3 2007 HD

    A look at the unusual process used in the making of the film Shortbus (2006) featuring interviews, behind the scenes footage and clips from the...

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  • 2005
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    3 Needles

    3 Needles

    6.3 2005 HD

    A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor schemes to pass his mandatory blood test; a young nun makes a personal...

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  • 2015
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    Whispers and Shoulders

    Whispers and Shoulders

    1 2015 HD

    WHISPERS AND SHOULDERS An experimental short directed by Sook-Yin Lee Conceived by JOOJ (Lee & Adam Litovitz) Made from the raw footage of JOOJ's...

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  • 1994
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    Green Dolphin Beat

    Green Dolphin Beat

    10 1994 HD

    Two cops try to solve the murder of a former prostitute while fighting for their jobs in a crime-ridden precinct of a Northwestern city.

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  • 2001
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    Hedwig and the Angry Inch

    Hedwig and the Angry Inch

    7.4 2001 HD

    Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an...

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  • 1998
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    Boy Meets Girl

    Boy Meets Girl

    1 1998 HD

    Angelina is a shy and whimsical Italian waitress who has moved from Italy to Canada to fulfill a family vow by marrying a man she's not in love with....

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  • 2019
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    Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls

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

    1 2019 HD

    A documentary discussing the legacy and impact of the famous Crocks N Rolls bar, a music club in Thunder Bay, Ontario that featured many prominent...

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  • 2020
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    Death and Sickness.

    Death and Sickness.

    1 2020 HD

    Sook-Yin and Dylan are currently holed up in a house in Toronto capturing what happens on consumer cameras and mobile phones. Death and Sickness is a...

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  • 1995
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    Bad Company

    Bad Company

    4.8 1995 HD

    CIA operative Nelson Crowe is tasked with a deadly assignment: infiltrate a highly secret industrial espionage firm. Once inside, he teams with...

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  • 1990
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    Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle

    Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle

    1 1990 HD

    A comedy of obsession and assimilation that charts the true account of a first generation Chinese-Canadian's attempt to fit into a white suburb....

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  • 1970
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    No Tickets at the Door

    No Tickets at the Door

    1 1970 HD

    No Tickets At The Door is an in-depth look into Toronto’s diverse underground music scene and the myriad of challenges that musicians,...

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  • 1990
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    Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle

    Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle

    1 1990 HD

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  • 1990
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    Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle

    Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle

    1 1990 HD

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  • 2009
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    Year of the Carnivore

    Year of the Carnivore

    5.4 2009 HD

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  • 2009
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    Year of the Carnivore

    Year of the Carnivore

    5.4 2009 HD

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  • 2008
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    Toronto Stories

    Toronto Stories

    3.9 2008 HD

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  • 2008
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    Toronto Stories

    Toronto Stories

    3.9 2008 HD

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  • 2018
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    Octavio Is Dead!

    Octavio Is Dead!

    4.188 2018 HD

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  • 2018
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    Octavio Is Dead!

    Octavio Is Dead!

    4.188 2018 HD

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  • 2024
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    Paying For It

    Paying For It

    1 2024 HD

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  • 2024
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    Paying For It

    Paying For It

    1 2024 HD

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  • 2024
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    Rest and Relax

    Rest and Relax

    1 2024 HD

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  • 2024
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    Rest and Relax

    Rest and Relax

    1 2024 HD

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  • 2024
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    Rest and Relax

    Rest and Relax

    1 2024 HD

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  • 2024
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    Rest and Relax

    Rest and Relax

    1 2024 HD

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  • 2024
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    Rest and Relax

    Rest and Relax

    1 2024 HD

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  • 2024
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    Rest and Relax

    Rest and Relax

    1 2024 HD

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  • 2015
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    Whispers and Shoulders

    Whispers and Shoulders

    1 2015 HD

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  • 2005
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    Unlocked

    Unlocked

    1 2005 HD

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  • 2004
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    Girl Cleans Sink

    Girl Cleans Sink

    2 2004 HD

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  • 2005
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    Unlocked

    Unlocked

    1 2005 HD

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  • 2013
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    Three Movements

    Three Movements

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2004
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    Girl Cleans Sink

    Girl Cleans Sink

    2 2004 HD

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  • 2013
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    Three Movements

    Three Movements

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2020
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    Death and Sickness.

    Death and Sickness.

    1 2020 HD

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  • 2020
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    Death and Sickness.

    Death and Sickness.

    1 2020 HD

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  • 1995
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    Sliders

    Sliders

    7.596 1995 HD

    In his basement in San Francisco, boy-genius Quinn Mallory unlocks the doorway to an infinite number of Earths. During a test run, Quinn invites...

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