Min Sook Lee is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work explores the intersections of labour, migration, war, and memory. Her films include Tiger Spirit, a reunification road trip through the two Koreas (Donald Brittain Gemini Award for Best Social Political Documentary); 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 organizing against exploitation, received both 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, where it received an Honourable Mention for Best Canadian Feature, and later won Best Documentary at the Toronto International Reel Asian Film Festival.

Working across personal and political histories, Lee’s documentaries trace how systems of power shape intimate lives. Centring racialized, diasporic, and working-class communities, her films combine formal innovation with long-term relationships to challenge dominant narratives and create space for collective memory and resistance. In recognition of her contributions, Canada’s oldest labour arts festival, Mayworks, established the Min Sook Lee Labour Arts Award in her honour.

Lee is the recipient of the Cinema Politica Alanis Obomsawin Award for Commitment to Community and Resistance and the César E. Chávez Black Eagle Award. She is an Associate Professor at OCAD University, where she teaches documentary and visual storytelling informed by working-class histories, feminist thought, and movements for social justice. A committed trade unionist, she currently serves as President of the OCAD University Faculty Association (OCADFA).