Writer
When Umi and Dwipa left Indonesia to work in an Ontario greenhouse as part of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program, they hoped the jobs would provide the opportunity and income for a better life. They didn't expect that fixers and false promises would lead to deception and exploitation. Sadly, their story is not uncommon. Min Sook Lee continues to speak truth to power with her commitment to providing a voice to the silenced, fulfilling documentary's capacity as a powerful tool for social change.
Director
When Umi and Dwipa left Indonesia to work in an Ontario greenhouse as part of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program, they hoped the jobs would provide the opportunity and income for a better life. They didn't expect that fixers and false promises would lead to deception and exploitation. Sadly, their story is not uncommon. Min Sook Lee continues to speak truth to power with her commitment to providing a voice to the silenced, fulfilling documentary's capacity as a powerful tool for social change.
Writer
“La realidad supera a la ficción”, reflexiona un entrevistado en este increíble relato de tiempos de guerra. Cuando la Segunda Guerra Mundial estaba llegando a su fin, la Oficina de Servicios Estratégicos de EEUU entrenó y lanzó en paracaídas a dos refugiados judíos y un desertor alemán en la Austria ocupada por los nazis. A través de vívidos relatos en primera persona, representaciones, imágenes de archivo y comentarios aprendidos, la película revela cómo sus esfuerzos interrumpieron una ruta vital de suministro entre Alemania y el frente italiano para lograr la rendición de Innsbruck a las Fuerzas Aliadas. Su increíble aventura tiene un final que supera a cualquier película de Hollywood... una historia tan poderosa que se convirtió en la base del mega éxito de Quentin Tarantino.
Director
“La realidad supera a la ficción”, reflexiona un entrevistado en este increíble relato de tiempos de guerra. Cuando la Segunda Guerra Mundial estaba llegando a su fin, la Oficina de Servicios Estratégicos de EEUU entrenó y lanzó en paracaídas a dos refugiados judíos y un desertor alemán en la Austria ocupada por los nazis. A través de vívidos relatos en primera persona, representaciones, imágenes de archivo y comentarios aprendidos, la película revela cómo sus esfuerzos interrumpieron una ruta vital de suministro entre Alemania y el frente italiano para lograr la rendición de Innsbruck a las Fuerzas Aliadas. Su increíble aventura tiene un final que supera a cualquier película de Hollywood... una historia tan poderosa que se convirtió en la base del mega éxito de Quentin Tarantino.
Director
The Real MASH traces the original stories and people that inspired the fictional feature film and TV series about Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals in the Korean War. Both pushed buttons on cultural and social frontiers but real life MASH units were actually more like renegade units onto themselves and early indicators of the social turmoil and tensions that were to unfold later in the USA. Interviews with MASH actors, including Jamie Farr, Loretta Swit and Gary Burghoff, co-creator Gene Reynolds, surgeons, doctors, nurses, pilots and enlisted men who served in the war blend with dramatic recreations, archival film and rare photographs to tell the true stories behind the MASH entertainment franchise.
Writer
The Real MASH traces the original stories and people that inspired the fictional feature film and TV series about Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals in the Korean War. Both pushed buttons on cultural and social frontiers but real life MASH units were actually more like renegade units onto themselves and early indicators of the social turmoil and tensions that were to unfold later in the USA. Interviews with MASH actors, including Jamie Farr, Loretta Swit and Gary Burghoff, co-creator Gene Reynolds, surgeons, doctors, nurses, pilots and enlisted men who served in the war blend with dramatic recreations, archival film and rare photographs to tell the true stories behind the MASH entertainment franchise.
Director
A documentary that looks at the lives of gay cops; cops who are out, cops who are closeted and cops who are somewhere in between the closet and the cruiser. Over the course of one year, starting and ending with the Gay Pride Parade, the documentary surveys how much the landscape has changed and looks at the different challenges gay cops face - along gender, race and class lines.
Producer
Korea is a divided nation. Filmmaker Min Sook Lee sets out on a revelatory, emotion-charged journey into Korea’s broken heart, exploring the rhetoric and realism of reunification through the extraordinary stories of ordinary people.
Writer
Korea is a divided nation. Filmmaker Min Sook Lee sets out on a revelatory, emotion-charged journey into Korea’s broken heart, exploring the rhetoric and realism of reunification through the extraordinary stories of ordinary people.
Director
Korea is a divided nation. Filmmaker Min Sook Lee sets out on a revelatory, emotion-charged journey into Korea’s broken heart, exploring the rhetoric and realism of reunification through the extraordinary stories of ordinary people.
Producer
Hogtown: The Politics of Policing is an unblinking look at political pressures and their impact on the operations of the Toronto Police Services Board.
Writer
Hogtown: The Politics of Policing is an unblinking look at political pressures and their impact on the operations of the Toronto Police Services Board.
Director
Hogtown: The Politics of Policing is an unblinking look at political pressures and their impact on the operations of the Toronto Police Services Board.
Additional Camera
This documentary from Min Sook Lee follows a poverty-stricken father from Central Mexico, along with several of his countrymen, as they make their annual migration to southern Ontario to pick tomatoes. For 8 months a year, the town's population absorbs 4,000 migrant workers who toil under conditions, and for wages, that no local would accept. Yet despite a fear of repercussions, the workers voice their desire for dignity and respect.
Researcher
This documentary from Min Sook Lee follows a poverty-stricken father from Central Mexico, along with several of his countrymen, as they make their annual migration to southern Ontario to pick tomatoes. For 8 months a year, the town's population absorbs 4,000 migrant workers who toil under conditions, and for wages, that no local would accept. Yet despite a fear of repercussions, the workers voice their desire for dignity and respect.
Director
This documentary from Min Sook Lee follows a poverty-stricken father from Central Mexico, along with several of his countrymen, as they make their annual migration to southern Ontario to pick tomatoes. For 8 months a year, the town's population absorbs 4,000 migrant workers who toil under conditions, and for wages, that no local would accept. Yet despite a fear of repercussions, the workers voice their desire for dignity and respect.
Writer
This documentary from Min Sook Lee follows a poverty-stricken father from Central Mexico, along with several of his countrymen, as they make their annual migration to southern Ontario to pick tomatoes. For 8 months a year, the town's population absorbs 4,000 migrant workers who toil under conditions, and for wages, that no local would accept. Yet despite a fear of repercussions, the workers voice their desire for dignity and respect.
