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Min Sook Lee is an award winning filmmaker with a diverse and prolific portfolio of multimedia work. | Min Sook Lee is an award winning filmmaker with a diverse and prolific portfolio of multimedia work. | ||
Min Sook is the co-creator of the | Min Sook is the co-creator of the comedy series ‘SHE’S THE MAYOR’ which premiered on Vision TV in 2011. She has produced and directed numerous critically acclaimed documentaries, including: TIGER SPIRIT – an examination of the division of the two Koreas shot on both sides of the border (Donald Brittain Gemini Award for Best Social/Political Documentary), HOGTOWN – an analysis of the intersection of policing and municipal politics (Best Feature-length Canadian Documentary award at Hot Docs Festival); and EL CONTRATO – a look at the lives of migrant farm workers in Canada (nominated for the Donald Brittain Gemini ). Her other film titles include: My Toxic Baby (premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival), The Real MASH (Golden Sheaf nomination and Honorable Mention Columbus Awards), Badge of Pride (docu about gay cops), Borderless (short doc/poem about undocumented workers) and Sedition (short doc about spoken word artists) | ||
Min Sook’s films have been broadcast internationally. Her films have traveled to festivals across the world. | Min Sook’s films have been broadcast internationally. Her films have traveled to festivals across the world. | ||
Min Sook began teaching documentary production in the Documentary Media (MFA) Program at Ryerson University in the Spring of 2012. | Min Sook began teaching documentary production in the Documentary Media (MFA) Program at Ryerson University in the Spring of 2012. | ||
Min Sook was awarded the Chesar E. Chavez Black Eagle Award by the Canadian Labour Congress and the Cesar E Chavez Foundation in recognition of the work her documentary El Contrato, has done to build solidarity for the rights of migrant workers in Canada. | |||