Sook-Yin Lee

During the rise of the music video era in the 80s, Canada launched "MuchMusic", a low budget TV network that revolutionized how the world's biggest stars connected with their fans and influenced the culture for the next three decades.

Sook-Yin and Dylan are currently holed up in a house in Toronto capturing what happens on consumer cameras and mobile phones. Death and Sickness is a work of auto-fiction inspired by real-life events.

Sook-Yin and Dylan are currently holed up in a house in Toronto capturing what happens on consumer cameras and mobile phones. Death and Sickness is a work of auto-fiction inspired by real-life events.

Sook-Yin and Dylan are currently holed up in a house in Toronto capturing what happens on consumer cameras and mobile phones. Death and Sickness is a work of auto-fiction inspired by real-life events.

A documentary discussing the legacy and impact of the famous Crocks N Rolls bar, a music club in Thunder Bay, Ontario that featured many prominent artists throughout the 1980s. Numerous interviewees are profiled, as is the club's legendary founder and owner Frank Loffredo.

The daughter of an overbearing mother enters the rich and strange world of her deceased father — a man she never knew.

The daughter of an overbearing mother enters the rich and strange world of her deceased father — a man she never knew.

WHISPERS AND SHOULDERS An experimental short directed by Sook-Yin Lee Conceived by JOOJ (Lee & Adam Litovitz) Made from the raw footage of JOOJ's 'Shoulders and Whispers' music video, directed by Brandon Cronenberg & filmed by Karim Hussain, CSC. WHISPERS AND SHOULDERS appropriates and reworks the raw footage of JOOJ's 'Shoulders and Whispers' music video. The video's images are rendered voiceless, with figures adrift in suspended animation for a twenty-six minute hypno-poetic reconstruction that draws upon unused images from the original music video. The initial video, 'Shoulders and Whispers,' is a black-and-white three-minute pop-song artifact designed to grab attention with each shot a fixed duration with a slow left-to-right pan. No shot is ever repeated. It has a forward momentum, unfolding new dynamics and imagery; conversely, WHISPERS AND SHOULDERS embraces repetitiveness in richly-saturated colour.

WHISPERS AND SHOULDERS An experimental short directed by Sook-Yin Lee Conceived by JOOJ (Lee & Adam Litovitz) Made from the raw footage of JOOJ's 'Shoulders and Whispers' music video, directed by Brandon Cronenberg & filmed by Karim Hussain, CSC. WHISPERS AND SHOULDERS appropriates and reworks the raw footage of JOOJ's 'Shoulders and Whispers' music video. The video's images are rendered voiceless, with figures adrift in suspended animation for a twenty-six minute hypno-poetic reconstruction that draws upon unused images from the original music video. The initial video, 'Shoulders and Whispers,' is a black-and-white three-minute pop-song artifact designed to grab attention with each shot a fixed duration with a slow left-to-right pan. No shot is ever repeated. It has a forward momentum, unfolding new dynamics and imagery; conversely, WHISPERS AND SHOULDERS embraces repetitiveness in richly-saturated colour.

In a world obsessed with physical supremacy, Three Movements shows the alternative bodybuilding possibilities presented by a cityscape, as Sook-Yin Lee demonstrates her atypical exercise regimen.

In a world obsessed with physical supremacy, Three Movements shows the alternative bodybuilding possibilities presented by a cityscape, as Sook-Yin Lee demonstrates her atypical exercise regimen.

NDP Leader Jack Layton was fluently bilingual, glib, sometimes flashy, full of energy and always media-friendly. He loved to entertain and uplift his co-workers with a strum on his guitar and spirit in his voice (which wasn't particularly good but he sang with gusto). Growing up in a political family, Layton was a left-wing Toronto city councillor for 17 years and spent a year as head of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. He became leader of the federal New Democratic Party in 2003... The NDP became the Official Opposition for the first time in history. Going into the 2011 federal election... Written by (STAFF)

YEAR OF THE CARNIVORE is a romantic-comedy-drama about a girl with an unrequited crush on a boy who thinks she's bad in bed, so she goes out to get more 'experience'. SAMMY SMALLS is a 21-year-old tomboy who works as a store detective at Big Apple Food Town. Her job is to deliver shoplifters to her boss who beats them up so they never re-offend. Sammy is head over heels for scruffy street musician EUGENE ZASLAVSKY. He's perfect for her, funny, irreverent and sensitive, but the problem is, he doesn't want to be in a relationship. After a disastrous one-night stand that goes beyond the boundaries of their friendship, Eugene suggests they play the field to get more experience. Following his advice, Sammy hatches a plan catapulting her on a quest that takes her through her neighbours' bedroom, the public swimming pool, and finally to blackmailing shoplifters into giving her sex lessons in the woods behind the supermarket.

YEAR OF THE CARNIVORE is a romantic-comedy-drama about a girl with an unrequited crush on a boy who thinks she's bad in bed, so she goes out to get more 'experience'. SAMMY SMALLS is a 21-year-old tomboy who works as a store detective at Big Apple Food Town. Her job is to deliver shoplifters to her boss who beats them up so they never re-offend. Sammy is head over heels for scruffy street musician EUGENE ZASLAVSKY. He's perfect for her, funny, irreverent and sensitive, but the problem is, he doesn't want to be in a relationship. After a disastrous one-night stand that goes beyond the boundaries of their friendship, Eugene suggests they play the field to get more experience. Following his advice, Sammy hatches a plan catapulting her on a quest that takes her through her neighbours' bedroom, the public swimming pool, and finally to blackmailing shoplifters into giving her sex lessons in the woods behind the supermarket.

Various lives intersect over the course of 48 hours in Canada's largest and most culturally diverse city.

Various lives intersect over the course of 48 hours in Canada's largest and most culturally diverse city.

Various lives intersect over the course of 48 hours in Canada's largest and most culturally diverse city.

A look at the unusual process used in the making of the film Shortbus (2006) featuring interviews, behind the scenes footage and clips from the feature film. Director John Cameron Mitchell starts with the concept of using real sex in a film with a positive message. The cast of unknowns is selected from homemade audition tapes and then a callback audition workshop. More acting workshops are used to develop the characters and script. The project overcomes a number of obstacles and the rest of the film's development is followed up until its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

한 번도 오르가즘을 느껴본 적 없는 섹스 테라피스트 소피아. 그녀는 성적으로 좀더 개방된 관계를 시도해 보려는 게이 커플 제이미와 제임스를 상담하던 중 ‘숏버스’라는 언더그라운드 살롱을 소개받는다. 비밀스런 모임이 이루어지는 이곳의 수많은 사람들은 예술, 음악, 정치 그리고 관계에 대해 서로 나누고 소통한다. 제이미와 제임스 사이에 새롭게 등장하게 된 모델 세스, 진정한 관계를 찾아 방황하는 세브린, 놀랍도록 솔직하고 과감한 경험을 하게 되는 소피아 등 숏버스를 찾는 외로운 영혼들은 서서히 해답과 희망을 찾아가게 되는데….

Lydia and her boyfriend, who works in a local café, broke up two months ago. The break up was a turbulent one. But he still has many of his possessions in her house, which are reminders of him to her. The one that she is most disturbed about his his bicycle, which is padlocked to her house. She does whatever she can to break the padlock and thus break any ties she has to him.

Lydia and her boyfriend, who works in a local café, broke up two months ago. The break up was a turbulent one. But he still has many of his possessions in her house, which are reminders of him to her. The one that she is most disturbed about his his bicycle, which is padlocked to her house. She does whatever she can to break the padlock and thus break any ties she has to him.

A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor schemes to pass his mandatory blood test; a young nun makes a personal sacrifice for the benefit of a South African village; in rural China, a black market operative posing as a government-sanctioned blood drawer jeopardizes an entire village's safety

A lonely couple meet in a Laundromat, where their clumsy attempt at a sexual liaison leads to revelations, embarrassments, and a little bit of compassion.

A lonely couple meet in a Laundromat, where their clumsy attempt at a sexual liaison leads to revelations, embarrassments, and a little bit of compassion.

Alessa Woo (Lee) is an ambitious art dealer who meets her match in gifted painter Ben Crowchild (Beach) in this romantic comedy.

동 베를린에서 엄마와 단둘이 살고 있는 한셀은 오븐 속에서 락 음악을 듣는 것이 유일한 취미이다. 어느 날 그에게 미국으로 갈 수 있는 기회가 찾아온다. 미군 병사가 그에게 여자가 되는 조건으로 결혼을 제의한 것. 그는 성전환 수술을 받지만, 싸구려 수술의 실패로 그에게는 여자의 가슴 대신 1인치의 살덩어리만이 남게 된다. 몇 년후, 트레일러에 사는 헤드윅은 록 밴드인 앵그리 인치를 조직하여 변두리의 바를 전전하며 노래를 불러 생활한다. 우연히 16세 소년 토미를 만나 사랑에 빠지지만, 토미는 그녀를 배신하고 그녀가 만든 곡들을 훔쳐 세계적인 스타로 발돋움하는데...

Set in Toronto's Little Italy, Boy Meets Girl stars Sean Astin as Mike, a cynical writer who pens copy for a romance magazine, and Emily Hampshire as Angelina, who has just arrived in Canada from Italy to marry a man she unfortunately doesn't care for. Mike's next door neighbor is an eccentric wallpaper hanger who writes poetry in his spare time. Somehow, one of the paperer's love verses ends up in Angelina's hands and she's convinced Mike wrote it -- and suddenly love is in the air and romance is sparked between them.

CIA는 당시 미국의 500대 재벌을 상대로 사립 스파이 활동을 맡은 회사인 'The Grimes Org'에 쥐도 새도 모르게 침투하여 임무을 수행하고 있다. 그 회사는 일명 '헛간(Tool Shed)'이라고 불리우는데 이곳에는 지성과 미모를 겸비하고 있으면서도 고객의 목적을 위해서라면 비도덕적이고 무자비한 활동을 서슴지 않는 충성스런 인재들이 재벌가들의 경쟁기업을 파멸시키기 위한 스파이 활동을 벌이고 있다. 기민하고 간사한 사장, 빅토르 그라임스(Vic Grimes: 프랭크 란젤라 분)는 심복으로 미기렛 웰스(Margaret Wells: 엘렌 바킨 분)를 삼고 있는데 그녀는 남자를 다루는데는 한마디로 마술사이다. 한편 숙련된 CIA 정보원 넬슨 크로우(Nelson Crowe: 로렌스 피쉬번 분)는 기관에서 부정한 정보원으로 의심을 받고 있는 불안한 입장으로 이러한 의심을 소제하고 인정받기 위해 그라임스 회사에 침투하여 스파이활동을 해야하는 막중한 임무를 맡는다. 그러나 크로우는 서서히 마가렛의 마력에 빠져들기 시작하고 그녀의 의도대로 사장 빅토르를 제거하고 둘이서 회사를 장악할 계획을 세우는데....

Two cops try to solve the murder of a former prostitute while fighting for their jobs in a crime-ridden precinct of a Northwestern city.

Suspense tale -- a pilot to a prospective series -- involving a criminal psychologist, struggling to rebuild his life after his wife is brutally murdered by a patient, and a lady lawyer who enlists his help in solving a baffling crime.

A comedy of obsession and assimilation that charts the true account of a first generation Chinese-Canadian's attempt to fit into a white suburb. After an alienated childhood, she lands a job at an unpopular pasta bar, walking the streets as a 10-foot egg noodle. A transformation occurs when her new persona, Mr. Noodle, supersedes her own identity - only to confront a similar alienation as a noodle-human.

A comedy of obsession and assimilation that charts the true account of a first generation Chinese-Canadian's attempt to fit into a white suburb. After an alienated childhood, she lands a job at an unpopular pasta bar, walking the streets as a 10-foot egg noodle. A transformation occurs when her new persona, Mr. Noodle, supersedes her own identity - only to confront a similar alienation as a noodle-human.

A comedy of obsession and assimilation that charts the true account of a first generation Chinese-Canadian's attempt to fit into a white suburb. After an alienated childhood, she lands a job at an unpopular pasta bar, walking the streets as a 10-foot egg noodle. A transformation occurs when her new persona, Mr. Noodle, supersedes her own identity - only to confront a similar alienation as a noodle-human.

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No Tickets At The Door is an in-depth look into Toronto’s diverse underground music scene and the myriad of challenges that musicians, promoters, and venues are facing during COVID-19. Questions about creative survival and perseverance during lockdown, as well as the overwhelming effects of merciless gentrification, are actively raised and discussed by the community. Part documentary, part love letter to the scene, filmmaker and musician Danny Alexander explores the creative impulses that are driving musicians today while paying close attention to the endangered status of Toronto as an incubator for the arts. Featuring interviews with prominent contributors such as Sook-Yin Lee, Dan Burke, Luna Li, Vypers, Alaska B, and TRP.P, owners of historic venues like the Horseshoe Tavern, and local politicians who are championing the arts, No Tickets At The Door examines the importance of music communities in the modern age and what is at stake if a city is no longer hospitable towards them.