Karin Lee
Karin Lee | |
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| Born | November 21, 1960 Vancouver |
| Other names | Karin Louise Lee |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, film producer, television director, television producer, university professor |
| Years active | 1989-present |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | www |
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 |
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| 2016 | Plan B [7] |  |
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22 min Drama, HD Video |
| 2012 | Passage of Dreams | |
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22 mins, Documentary Video |
| Million Dollar Mile [8] | |
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48 min Drama, 6 channel Video Installation | |
| 2011 | Small Pleasures [9] | |
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5 min Drama, Video |
| 2010 | 1788 ‚ A history of Chinese and First Nations in BC | |
10 min, Documentary Video | ||
| Cedar and Bamboo [10] | |
22 min, Documentary, HD, Video | |||
| 2009 | Little Heaven and Earth | |
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20 min Drama, Video |
| 2007 | Shattered [11] | |
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22 min, 2 Channel Site Specific Video Installation |
| 2005 | Comrade Dad | |
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26 min 16mm video |
| Oysters and Chocolate | |
6 min single channel video (also: Cinematographer/Editor) | |||
| 2004 | Sunflower Children | |
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20 min documentary (also: Cinematographer/Editor) | |
| 2000 | Made in China [12] | |
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47 min documentary video | |
| 1998 | Canadian Steel, Chinese Grit [13] | |
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48 min documentary video | |
| 1997 | Songs of the Phoenix‚ Voices of Chinese women | |
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11 min documentary video | |
| 1994 | My Sweet Peony [14] | |
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30 min drama 16mm |
| 1989 | Dragonlines | |
Documentary Video |
References
- ^ "Karin Lee". theatrefilm.ubc.ca. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
- ^ a b "Karin Lee films". www.karinlee.ca. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
- ^ "Moving Images Distribution". movingimages.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-25.
- ^ "Women In Film". www.womeninfilm.ca/2017_Award_Winners.html. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
- ^ "2017 Women of Distinction Awards Nominees". ywcavan.org. Retrieved 2017-07-25.
- ^ Vancouver, City of (2016-09-26) [2014]. "Mayor's Arts Award for Film and New Media". vancouver.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-25.
- ^ "Production MFA Film Candidate Karin Lee's Controversial TV Pilot – "Plan b" | Theatre and Film". theatrefilm.ubc.ca. Archived from the original on 2018-03-07. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
- ^ http://wcilcos.library.ubc.ca/files/2011/12/S12_LeeK_media.pdf
- ^ "Small Pleasures, a short dramatic film in Chinook Wawa". Chinook Jargon. 2014-04-22. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
- ^ "Moving Images Distribution: Cedar and Bamboo". www.movingimages.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
- ^ "Shattered | Video Out - Vancouver, British Columbia". www.videoout.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
- ^ "Moving Images Distribution: Made in China: The Story of Adopted Chinese Children in Canada". www.movingimages.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
- ^ "Moving Images Distribution: Canadian Steel, Chinese Grit". www.movingimages.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
- ^ "Moving Images Distribution: Search Results". www.movingimages.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
