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Min Sook Lee is a writer, broadcaster and an award winning documentary film director/producer.
Min Sook Lee is an award winning documentary 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 (finalist, Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2009; Gemini Award nomination for Best Social/ Political Documentary).  Her short docu-poems Borderless and Sedition 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 latest 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 will also see release in 2009.


In 2006 she released the short docu-poem Borderless, a film about undocumented workers in Canada. Borderless has screened internationally at festivals in Asia and North America. Her feature documentary, Hogtown: The Politics of Policing was awarded Best Feature-length Canadian Documentary at the 2005 Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival. Her first feature El Contrato, produced by the National Film Board of Canada, and broadcast on TVO, was nominated for the Gemini award for Best Social/Political Documentary in 2005. El Contrato has screened at international festivals and was awarded the Best Documentary Award from the Ibero American Film Festival in 2003. Min Sook was also presented with the Cesar E. Chavez Black Eagle Award for El Contrato’s impact on the rights of migrant workers.
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Min Sook has just released the feature length documentary Tiger Spirit, a reunification road trip through the two Koreas which premiers at Hot Docs 2008. In 2008 she will also release the documentary Badge of Pride, the story of queer cops in Canada.
 
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Min Sook Lee




Min Sook Lee is an award winning documentary filmmaker. Her body of work includes The Politics of Policing’ (Best Feature-length Canadian Documentary, Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival 2005), El Contrato (Gemini Award nomination for Best Social/ Political Documentary) and Tiger Spirit, a reunification road-trip through the two Koreas (finalist, Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2009; Gemini Award nomination for Best Social/ Political Documentary). Her short docu-poems Borderless and Sedition 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 latest documentary My Toxic Baby at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. Badge of Pride, her documentary on gay cops will also see release in 2009.


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