Sook-Yin Lee

Known for ActingVancouver, Canada

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.Read more

Movies & web series

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

Green Dolphin Beat

Mood Indigo

Boy Meets Girl

Sliders

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Endless Cookie

Jack

Paying for It

A Fermenting Woman

Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'

Darkest Miriam

Shortbus

Close to You

3 Needles

299 Queen Street West

Year of the Carnivore

Bad Company

Octavio Is Dead!

Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band

Girl Cleans Sink

The Art of Woo

Toronto Stories

Boys Night

Rest and Relax

Death and Sickness.

Whispers and Shoulders

Three Movements

Unlocked

Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle

No Tickets at the Door