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Sook-Yin Lee

Sook-Yin Lee is a Toronto-based filmmaker, actor, writer, musician, and broadcaster. She’s acted in films including Hedwig and the Angry Inch (01), Shortbus (06), Jack (13), and Darkest Miriam (24), and has contributed music to Antiviral (12) and Infinity Pool (23). Her directorial credits include Year of the Carnivore (TIFF ’09) and Octavio is Dead! (18). Paying For It (24) is her latest film.

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    Sook-Yin Lee on adapting Chester Brown's comic strip memoir about sex work into a film

    Lee writes about her experience making Paying For It, which is premiering at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.
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    Winnipeg through the eyes of DNTO host Sook-Yin Lee

    DNTO host Sook-Yin Lee shares some of her favourite Winnipeg memories and landmarks.
    News Canada Manitoba
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    Hybrid media experiments with CBC Radio's Sook-Yin Lee

    I was asked by The Doc Project to share some of the process behind the making of my hybrid video/radio documentary, Where Have All the Poets Gone? I explore new hybrid media experiments as a way of embracing platforms, pushing boundaries, breaking rules and moving culture forward.
    Radio The Doc Project Blog