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Min Sook Lee is an award winning filmmaker. | Min Sook Lee is an award winning filmmaker. | ||
Her body of work includes [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481542/‘Hogtown: The Politics of Policing’] (Best Feature-length Canadian Documentary, Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival 2005), [http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=51087 El Contrato] (Gemini Award nomination for Best Social/ Political Documentary) and [http://www.tigerspirit.ca/index.shtml Tiger Spirit], a reunification road-trip through the two Koreas (Gemini Award Winner of Best Social/Political Documentary, finalist for the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2009). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8EpSdyB0zY This clip] from Lee's City Hall documentary Hogtown featuring Toronto Mayor Rob Ford who was then a City Councilor, behaving boorishly as he hectors a harried journalist has had a viral presence online, blogged about by Roger Ebert and cited in many media channels as evidence that Ford is unfit for office. | Her body of work includes HOGTOWN [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481542/‘Hogtown: The Politics of Policing’] (Best Feature-length Canadian Documentary, Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival 2005), [http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=51087 El Contrato] (Gemini Award nomination for Best Social/ Political Documentary) and [http://www.tigerspirit.ca/index.shtml Tiger Spirit], a reunification road-trip through the two Koreas (Gemini Award Winner of Best Social/Political Documentary, finalist for the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2009). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8EpSdyB0zY This clip] from Lee's City Hall documentary Hogtown featuring Toronto Mayor Rob Ford who was then a City Councilor, behaving boorishly as he hectors a harried journalist has had a viral presence online, blogged about by Roger Ebert and cited in many media channels as evidence that Ford is unfit for office. | ||
Her short docu-poems Borderless (about undocumented workers) and Sedition (featuring the spoken work political poetry of Boona Mohammed and Rafeef Ziadah) have played at international festivals. Min Sook was also presented with the Cesar E. Chavez Black Eagle Award for El Contrato’s impact on the rights of migrant workers. Min Sook premiered her documentary [http://www.mytoxicbaby.com/team.html My Toxic Baby] at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. [http://badgeofpride.wordpress.com/ Badge of Pride], her documentary on gay cops was released in 2009 and broadcast on CBC's The Passionate Eye. Badge of Pride premiered on US television on PBS New York in 2012. | Her short docu-poems Borderless (about undocumented workers) and Sedition (featuring the spoken work political poetry of Boona Mohammed and Rafeef Ziadah) have played at international festivals. Min Sook was also presented with the Cesar E. Chavez Black Eagle Award for El Contrato’s impact on the rights of migrant workers. Min Sook premiered her documentary [http://www.mytoxicbaby.com/team.html My Toxic Baby] at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. [http://badgeofpride.wordpress.com/ Badge of Pride], her documentary on gay cops was released in 2009 and broadcast on CBC's The Passionate Eye. Badge of Pride premiered on US television on PBS New York in 2012. | ||