Sook-Yin Lee and Dylan Gamble make music with a free jazz spirit and other-world intensity.
Sook-Yin Lee is a Toronto-based filmmaker, musician, actor, multimedia artist and radio and TV broadcaster (CBC Radio & TV, BBC, MuchMusic). She starred in John Cameron Mitchell’s groundbreaking 2SLGBTQ movie Shortbus, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival and made her feature film writer and directorial debut at TIFF with Year of the Carnivore, starring Cristin Milioti. In 2014, Sook-Yin won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by a Lead Dramatic Actress for her role as Olivia Chow in Jack, and went on to create Unsafe at Canadian Stage, which examined questions of censorship and artistic freedom. Her work has been presented by Ottawa Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Dance Theatre, and Festival of New Dance. Octavio is Dead! – a ghost story by Lee – starring Sarah Gadon and Rosanna Arquette – won her Best Director and Best Picture at the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival in 2018. Death and Sickness (CBC Gem) and Rest and Relax are micro-movies made with Dylan Gamble. She directed, co-wrote, co-scored and co-produced the film adaptation of Chester Brown’s best-selling graphic novel Paying For It and acted in Darkest Miriam (E.P. Charlie Kaufman) and Close to You (Elliot Page). Sook-Yin is a recording artist and Canadian Screen Award-nominated film score composer with myriad albums and recent contributions to Brandon Cronenberg's horror movies Infinity Pool and Antiviral. https://www.sookyinlee.com
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Dylan Gamble, musician, filmmaker, and visual artist, plays with the band Hot Garbage who have released two full-length albums and toured extensively internationally. He co-made the no-budget micro-movies Death and Sickness (CBC Gem) and Rest and Relax, plus the documentary Who Cares? (about community care) with Sook-Yin Lee. Together they co-composed the original soundtrack for Paying for It that premiered at TIFF. Gamble graduated from Cambrian College with honours in classical music performance with a major in double bass and minor in piano. He contributed music for the documentary Al Purdy Was Here which premiered at TIFF. He has done three international tours with the Sudbury Youth Orchestra, performed for two seasons with the Sudbury Symphony, and plays with the Counterpoint Orchestra, Toronto’s first 2SLGBTQIA+ orchestra.