Karin Lee

Karin Lee
Born (1960-11-21) November 21, 1960
Vancouver
Other names Karin Louise Lee
Occupation Film director, film producer, television director, television producer, university professor
Years active 1989-present
Children 2
Website www.karinlee.ca

Karin Lee is a Canadian filmmaker, artist, writer, and producer. She is an adjunct professor of film at the University of British Columbia.[1]

Biography

Lee has written, directed and produced documentary, narrative film and video installations and co-founded Top Dollar Sisters Productions, a film production house, in Vancouver[2]. She is also the great granddaughter of Tsang Quon, a Chinese pioneer who immigrated to Canada in the 1870s‚ lived and worked in Barkerville, BC and Mah Bing Kee, a businessman who immigrated to Canada around 1903 and lived in Nanaimo, BC. Her father Wally Lee, ran a Chinese Communist bookstore in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside - Hastings Street from the 1960s-1980s‚ called China Arts and Crafts and in 2004 Karin completed a film about him called Comrade Dad [3]. Notably, in 2001 she received a Gemini Award for her documentary Made in China, the story of adopted Chinese children in Canada.[2]

Awards and Nominations

Year Award Result
2017 Vancouver Women in Film and Television, Excellence in Education Award [4] Won
Vancouver YWCA Woman of Distinction in Education, Training and Development [5] Nominated
2014 City of Vancouver Mayor‚ Arts Awards, 2014 Film and New Media Artist [6] Won
2013 Golden Sheaf Award, Yorkton Short Film Festival - Passage of Dreams Nominated
2011 Vancouver Women in Film and Television Festival, Best Diversity Award -Cedar and Bamboo Won
2008 North American Asian Professionals NAAP, Vancouver, Community Recognition: Spotlight on Leadership Nominated
2007 BC Leo Awards, Channel M, Diversity in Cultures - Our Family Pictures Won
2001 Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, Gemini: Made in China Won
San Diego Asian Film Festival, Best Feature Documentary - Made in China Won
Hawaii International Film Festival, Best Feature Documentary - Made in China Won
Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival, Golden Sheaf Award nominee - Made in China Won

Selected filmography

Year Title Director Producer Writer Notes
2016 Plan B [7]
No
No
No
 22 min Drama, HD Video
2012 Passage of Dreams
No
No
No
 22 mins, Documentary Video
Million Dollar Mile [8]
No
No
No
 48 min Drama, 6 channel Video Installation
2011 Small Pleasures [9]
No
No
No
 5 min Drama, Video
2010 1788 ‚ A history of Chinese and First Nations in BC
No
 10 min, Documentary Video
Cedar and Bamboo [10]
No
 22 min, Documentary, HD, Video
2009 Little Heaven and Earth
No
No
No
 20 min Drama, Video
2007 Shattered [11]
No
No
No
 22 min, 2 Channel Site Specific Video Installation
2005 Comrade Dad
No
No
No
 26 min 16mm video
Oysters and Chocolate
No
 6 min single channel video (also: Cinematographer/Editor)
2004 Sunflower Children
No
No
 20 min documentary (also: Cinematographer/Editor)
2000 Made in China [12]
No
No
 47 min documentary video
1998 Canadian Steel, Chinese Grit [13]
No
No
 48 min documentary video
1997 Songs of the Phoenix‚ Voices of Chinese women
No
No
 11 min documentary video
1994 My Sweet Peony [14]
No
No
No
 30 min drama 16mm
1989 Dragonlines
No
 Documentary Video

References

  1. ↑ "Karin Lee". theatrefilm.ubc.ca. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Karin Lee films". www.karinlee.ca. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Moving Images Distribution". movingimages.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-25.
  4. ↑ "Women In Film". www.womeninfilm.ca/2017_Award_Winners.html. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  5. ↑ "2017 Women of Distinction Awards Nominees". ywcavan.org. Retrieved 2017-07-25.
  6. ↑ Vancouver, City of (2016-09-26) [2014]. "Mayor's Arts Award for Film and New Media". vancouver.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-25.
  7. ↑ "Production MFA Film Candidate Karin Lee’s Controversial TV Pilot – “Plan b” | Theatre and Film". theatrefilm.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  8. ↑ http://wcilcos.library.ubc.ca/files/2011/12/S12_LeeK_media.pdf
  9. ↑ "Small Pleasures, a short dramatic film in Chinook Wawa". Chinook Jargon. 2014-04-22. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  10. ↑ "Moving Images Distribution: Cedar and Bamboo". www.movingimages.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  11. ↑ "Shattered | Video Out - Vancouver, British Columbia". www.videoout.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  12. ↑ "Moving Images Distribution: Made in China: The Story of Adopted Chinese Children in Canada". www.movingimages.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  13. ↑ "Moving Images Distribution: Canadian Steel, Chinese Grit". www.movingimages.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  14. ↑ "Moving Images Distribution: Search Results". www.movingimages.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-26.

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