Sook-Yin Lee

Sook- Yin Lee is a Canadian filmmaker, musician, actor, multimedia artist and TV & radio broadcaster (MuchMusic, CBC, BBC). She starred in John Cameron Mitchell’s groundbreaking LGBTQ movie Shortbus which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Year of the Carnivore, Leeʼs feature film debut as writer-director starring Cristin Milioti, premiered at TIFF. She wrote & performed Unsafe (Canadian Stage 2019) exploring censorship & artistic freedom. Sook-Yin won the 2014 Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by a Lead Actress for her role as “Olivia Chow” in Jack. She's twice nominated for Canadian Screen Awards for original film scores and plays in the bands JOOJ co-led with Adam Litovitz and Lee & Gamble Unlimited. Her movie, Octavio is Dead! a supernatural ghost story starring Sarah Gadon & Rosanna Arquette won Best Director and Best Picture awards at the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival 2018. Her feature movie Death and Sickness made with Dylan Gamble airs on CBC Gem in Canada.