Bio: Min Sook Lee-

Min Sook Lee is a writer, broadcaster and an award winning documentary film director/producer.

Lee’s first feature El Contrato, produced by the National Film Board of Canada, and broadcast on TVO, was nominated for the Gemini award for Best Social/Political Documentary in 2005. El Contrato has screened at international festivals and was awarded the Best Documentary Award from the Ibero American Film Festival in 2003. Lee was also presented with the Cesar E. Chavez Black Eagle Award for El Contrato’s impact on the rights of migrant workers.

Lee’s feature documentary, Hogtown: The Politics of Policing was awarded Best Feature-length Canadian Documentary at the 2005 Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival. In 2006 she released the short docu-poem Borderless, a film about undocumented workers in Canada. Borderless has screened internationally at festivals in Asia and North America.

In 2008, Lee released the feature length documentary Tiger Spirit, a reunification road trip through the two Koreas which premiered at Hot Docs 2008, as well as Sedition, a short documentary on youth and freedom of expression. Slated for release in 2009 is the documentary Badge of Pride, the story of queer cops in Canada, as well as My Toxic Baby. She currently has feature documentaries What Women Want, Return From the Killing Fields, and Last Dive, and a documentary series Writers In Exile, in development.