Writer/Director

Min Sook Lee is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose acclaimed works include Tiger Spirit (Donald Brittain Gemini Award), Hogtown: The Politics of Policing (Hot Docs Best Canadian Feature), and The Real Inglorious Bastards (Canadian Screen Award for Best History Documentary). Migrant Dreams, following migrant farmworkers 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 (National Film Board of Canada), premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival and received an Honourable Mention for Best Canadian Feature.

A self-taught filmmaker, Lee is the recipient of the OCUFA Status of Women and Equity Award of Distinction, the Cinema Politica Alanis Obomsawin Award for Commitment to Community and Resistance, and the César E. Chávez Black Eagle Award.

Lee’s practice is grounded in long-term community engagement. She currently serves as Chair of the National Board of the Documentary Organization of Canada, is President of the OCAD Faculty Association, and is a founding member of both the Asian Canadian Women’s Alliance and the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance, reflecting a career rooted in solidarity and cultural transformation.

As Associate Professor at OCAD University, she teaches and researches counter-hegemonic narrative practices and feminist working-class praxis, imagining a world rooted in justice, equity, and shared humanity.

Producer

Chanda Chevannes is the executive producer of the Central Documentary Unit, serving Nunavut, Manitoba and Ontario. She is passionate about creating more joy and justice in our world through documentary. 

Chanda’s first films as executive producer at the NFB include Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, The Nest and Sounds & Pressure. Prior to joining the NFB in 2022, Chanda worked for two decades as an independent filmmaker, writer and educator. She produced/directed 14 films, including the award-winning features UNFRACTURED and Living Downstream, and produced or production managed 25 other docs. She has also written 15 film-related publications and trained more than 800 filmmakers.  

Chanda is a mother and a queer woman of colour—identities that inform her work. 

Executive Producer (NFB)

A multi-award-winning producer, Anita Lee was head of the NFB’s Ontario Studio in Toronto from 2014 to 2022. She produced some of the most critically acclaimed works in NFB history, including Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell (2012). Recent NFB projects as executive producer include Randall Okita’s The Book of Distance (2021 CSA, 2021 Webby, 2020 Japan Prize). Lee established the NFB’s Creative Non-Fiction Immersive Lab in Toronto and was the founder of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. Currently, she is the Chief Programming Officer at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Composer

Andrew Yong Hoon Lee is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and composer. Often working collaboratively, his work culminates in installations where relationships between media generate affective intensities of sensorial experience, examining the poetic, political, and philosophical possibilities of light, space, and sound.

Lee has presented work, texts, lectures, compositions, and performances at the The 13th edition of the Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art; Center For Performance Research, New York; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany; Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver; The Stone, New York; Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg; The Poetry Project & Wendy’s Subway, New York; The Vancouver Art Gallery; The International Symposium On Electronic Arts, Vancouver; The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Vancouver; Achtung Cinema, Paris; Kinoskop International Analog Film Festival, Belgrade; Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan; Radio Alhara, Bethlehem; and Fridman Gallery, New York, among others.

As a musician, composer, and performer, Lee has released full-length recordings, scored music for feature-length films and documentaries, and toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. Lee received a Bachelor of Arts from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver and a Master of Fine Arts from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, New York. He teaches fine art, photographic practices, moving image, and visual culture at the New School Parsons School of Design in New York.

Editor

Eui Yong is an award-winning editor and filmmaker whose credits include: Leftover (TFCA 2015, Director), Julio (Hotdocs 2015, Director), Over Time (Bravo Factual), I Hold the Decho in My Heart (CBC), MerB’ys (CBC), Spirit to Soar (CBC POV & Hotdocs 2021), LIDO TV (TIFF 2023), and One of Ours, (Hotdocs 2021)which won a Jury Prize for Best Canadian Feature at Hotdocs Film Festival in 2021 and a Canadian Cinema Editor Award (CCE) for Best Editing in a Feature Documentary, Chosen (JeonJu Intl Film Festival), Wilfred Buck (Co-Editor, Hotdocs 2024), The Knowing (TIFF 2024, CCE Nom), and There Are No Words (NFB Feature, TIFF 2025 - Honourable Mention for Best Canadian Feature). Yong holds a BA in Middle Eastern Studies from University of Toronto, and a MFA degree in Film Production at York University.

Cinematographer

Iris is an award-winning cinematographer known for work that focuses on human rights, marginalised communities, and auteur perspectives. She has collaborated closely with directors on critically-acclaimed documentaries but has also been lensing films for contemporary artists, as well as shot scripted shorts, prime time TV, and digital series. Her most notable work includes Academy shortlisted films Stories We Tell (dir. Sarah Polley, 2012), and Netflix Original Shirkers (dir. Sandi Tan, 2018), as well as the Primetime Emmy award-winning series, Making A Murderer (2015, 2018). She has also collaborated on award-winning feature documentaries, The Last Of The Sea Women (Sue Kim, 2024), Twice Colonized (Lin Alina, 2023), Category: Woman (Phyllis Ellis, 2022), One Of Ours (Yasmine Mathurin, 2021), Push (Fredrick Gertten, 2019), Subjects Of Desire (Jennifer Holness, 2021), A Better Man (Attiya Khan, Lawrence Jackman, 2017), Migrant Dreams (Min Sook Lee, 2016), and The Apology (Tiffany Hsiung, 2016). Her work has premiered at Sundance, TIFF, Venice, CPH:DOX, Sheffield, True/False, Telluride, DOC NYC, Doxa, and Hot Docs, where her camera work has been in three of the festival's opening night films. Many have also been commissioned for broadcasters BBC, CBC, A&E, PBS and major streaming platforms Apple TV+, Netflix, Paramount +, NFB, and The Criterion Channel.

Beyond her creative work, Iris is deeply engaged in the film industry as an advocate for diversity and inclusion. She serves on the Committee On Racial Equity (C.O.R.E) with IATSE 667, is Co-Chair of the Field of View Mentorship Committee with the Canadian Society of Cinematographers, and is a founding member of the Documentary Cinematographers Alliance (DCA).

There Are No Words which premiered at Tiff50 and received an honourable mention for Best Canadian Feature is Iris’ fourth feature film collaboration with Min Sook Lee.