Sook-Yin Lee

SookYin Lee born 1966 is a Torontobased 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 SookYin Lee directs and cowrites the liveaction movie adaptation of Chester Browns bestselling graphic novel Paying For It which premiered at TIFF 2024