Min Sook Lee

Min Sook Lee is an award winning documentary filmmaker. Her body of work includes ‘Hogtown: 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. (01/10)

My Toxic Baby
A film by Min Sook Lee, 2009, 46 min., Color
This eye-opening yet often amusing documentary records the filmmaker’s quest for safe, sane and affordable ways to raise her child in a world embedded...

Tiger Spirit
A film by Min Sook Lee, 2008, 78 min., Color
Korea is a divided nation. Millions of families were split apart in the 1950s when war broke out between the Soviet-occupied North and the American-co...