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Min Sook Lee
Min Sook Lee (Korean: 이민숙; born 1969) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, academic, and political activist.
Lee was born in South Korea and immigrated to Canada with her family at the age of three, growing up in downtown Toronto, where her family owned a convenience store. Lee and her sisters worked long hours behind the counters, often translating for their parents, who did not speak English.
As a teenager, Lee joined the anti-apartheid movement in Toronto, which she credits with introducing her to political activism.
Lee is a self-taught documentary filmmaker who has directed eight feature documentaries, often focusing on labour, migration, and social justice issues.
Early in her career, Lee was news director at community radio station CKLN-FM from 1996 to 1998, an assistant to documentary filmmaker Sylvia Sweeney, and a news reporter at television station Toronto 1 from 2004 to 2005.
Lee's first feature film, El Contrato (2003), showed migrant farm workers from Central Mexico facing harsh working conditions in Leamington, Ontario. In response, Leamington farmers issued a SLAPP suit which delayed the film's release by a year. Lee was awarded the Cesar E. Chavez Black Eagle Award for the film, which was also a nominee for the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social or Political Documentary at the 20th Gemini Awards in 2005.
Lee's 2005 film Hogtown: The Politics of Policing followed a dysfunctional City Hall struggle over the Toronto Police Service's budget during a wave of violent gun crimes and police corruption scandals. The film won the Best Canadian Feature Documentary award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
Her 2008 film Tiger Spirit told the story of Korean families divided by the Korean War and the border between North Korea and South Korea, and won the Donald Brittain Award at the 24th Gemini Awards in 2009.
Min Sook Lee
Min Sook Lee (Korean: 이민숙; born 1969) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, academic, and political activist.
Lee was born in South Korea and immigrated to Canada with her family at the age of three, growing up in downtown Toronto, where her family owned a convenience store. Lee and her sisters worked long hours behind the counters, often translating for their parents, who did not speak English.
As a teenager, Lee joined the anti-apartheid movement in Toronto, which she credits with introducing her to political activism.
Lee is a self-taught documentary filmmaker who has directed eight feature documentaries, often focusing on labour, migration, and social justice issues.
Early in her career, Lee was news director at community radio station CKLN-FM from 1996 to 1998, an assistant to documentary filmmaker Sylvia Sweeney, and a news reporter at television station Toronto 1 from 2004 to 2005.
Lee's first feature film, El Contrato (2003), showed migrant farm workers from Central Mexico facing harsh working conditions in Leamington, Ontario. In response, Leamington farmers issued a SLAPP suit which delayed the film's release by a year. Lee was awarded the Cesar E. Chavez Black Eagle Award for the film, which was also a nominee for the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social or Political Documentary at the 20th Gemini Awards in 2005.
Lee's 2005 film Hogtown: The Politics of Policing followed a dysfunctional City Hall struggle over the Toronto Police Service's budget during a wave of violent gun crimes and police corruption scandals. The film won the Best Canadian Feature Documentary award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
Her 2008 film Tiger Spirit told the story of Korean families divided by the Korean War and the border between North Korea and South Korea, and won the Donald Brittain Award at the 24th Gemini Awards in 2009.