Min Sook Lee is an award-winning director whose work explores themes of labour, migration and social justice.
Her acclaimed documentaries include Migrant Dreams (2016), named Best Labour Documentary by the Canadian Journalists Association and recipient of the Canadian Hillman Prize; The Real Inglorious Bastards (2012), winner of a Canadian Screen Award; Tiger Spirit (2008), which won the Donald Brittain Gemini Award; Hogtown (2005), named Best Canadian Feature at Hot Docs; and the Gemini-nominated El Contrato (2003).
She is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Cesar E. Chavez Black Eagle Award, and the Alanis Obomsawin Award for Commitment to Community and Resistance. Canada’s oldest labour arts festival, Mayworks, has named the Min Sook Lee Labour Arts Award in her honour.
Lee is an Associate Professor at OCAD University, where her area of research and practice focuses on the intersections of art+social change in labour, border politics, migration and social justice movements.
Select Writings
March 2021, ‘The Kill Floor’ text to accompany exhibition ‘Theatre from the Jungle’ by artists Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre (February 3, 2021 - July 31, 2021) in Hamilton, Ontario.
April 22, 2021 -“Laurentian University crisis a story of political interference and defunding of education”, rabble.ca
April 26, 2021, ‘End Anti-Asian Hate’, Our Times Magazine, transcript of speech delivered on March 28, 2021 in Toronto at a rally against anti-Asian racism.
2018, ‘The Conversation’, online publication. ‘Canada the Good’ myth exposed: Migrant workers resist debt-bondage’, https://theconversation.com/canada-the-good-myth-exposed-migrant-workersresist-debt-bondage- 90279
2016 TVO blog, ‘Separating Myth from Reality in Canada’s Migrant Worker Problem’