Min Sook Lee is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her filmography includes Tiger Spirit a reunification road-trip through the two Koreas (Donald Brittain Gemini Award Winner), Hogtown: The Politics of Policing (Hot Docs Award for Best Canadian Feature) and The Real Inglorious Bastards (Canadian Screen Award for Best History Documentary). Migrant Dreams, which follows migrant farm workers resisting exploitation, received the Canadian Hillman Prize and the Canadian Association of Journalists’ Award for Labour Reporting. Her most recent feature, There Are No Words premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival (Honourable Mention for Best Canadian Feature). The film also garnered the award for Best Documentary at the Toronto International Reel Asian Film Festival.

Lee’s films are grounded in empathy and aesthetic precision. They centre racialized, diasporic, and working-class communities, revealing the beauty and resilience within lives too often erased from public view. Canada’s oldest labour arts festival, Mayworks, has named the Min Sook Lee Labour Arts Award in her honour.

A recipient of the Cinema Politica Alanis Obomsawin Award for Commitment to Community and Resistance, and the César E. Chávez Black Eagle Award, Lee continues to expand the possibilities of political cinema. As Associate Professor at OCAD University, she teaches documentary and visual storytelling rooted in histories of working-class life, feminist thought, and movements for social justice.