Min Sook Lee
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Min Sook Lee is an award winning documentary filmmaker and teaches documentary production in the Documentary Media (MFA) Program at Ryerson University.
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 documentary My Toxic Baby at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. 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. Min Sook is the co-creator of the hit comedy series ‘SHE’S THE MAYOR’ which premiered on Vision TV in 2011. In 2011 she also released has produced and directed numerous critically acclaimed documentaries, including: The Real MASH – the true story of the people that inspired the fiction TV series.
Min Sook is in production on two projects: The Real Inglorious Bastards, a documentary about Jewish spies behind enemy lines during WWII; and SKETCH CITY, an interactive documentary developed with street youth about their lives.