Sook-Yin Lee here.
My first feature movie I wrote and directed premiered at theToronto International Film Festival and will be released in theatres across Canada in 2010.
YEAR OF THE CARNIVORE is the year Sammy Smalls takes a bite out of life and has her heart bitten. It's the story about a girl who's in love with a boy who thinks she's bad in bed so she goes out to get more "experience". It stars Cristin Milioti, Mark Rendall, Will Sasso, Sheila McCarthy, Kevin McDonald, Ali Liebert and Linda Uyehara Hoffman and many more.
I collaborated on the original score with my pals Buck 65 and Adam Litovitz. We are recording an album as a companion piece to the movie. It will be out on Last Gang Records. The soundtrack features songs by Betty Davis, Shugo Tokumaru, The Walkmen, Yegor Letov, Modern Creatures, Aidan Baker, Prince Nifty and awesome American, Canadian and Russian independent music.
www.yearofthecarnivore.com
www.yearofthecarnivore.blogspot.com
I'm so happy to share Year of the Carnivore with the world. I hope you can see it.
LOVE!
Sook-Yin
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Hi, I'm Sook-Yin. I make movies, I write stories, I act in my friends' films. I'm a swimmer, I'm a bicyclist. I've never had a driver's licence. Of all the ways to communicate, singing is one of the few times I can stop thinking. I find it very difficult to describe my music. When people ask I say, "Plump with freckles."
I've posted 4 songs on myspace. The first, "Lunar Lament" uses a wheezy old children's keyboard I found at the Sally Ann for five bucks. You may have heard my pal Neko Case cover my song,"Knock Loud". The version posted here is the original. "Born Free" is my interpretation of a song from the movie of the same name, about an orphaned lioness cub in captivity. And finally on, "Sweet Dreams, Get up!" my friend, alternative cartoonist Joe Matt (Peepshow) played the keyboards.
I work at the Canadian Broadcast Corporation on CBC Radio 1 where I host DEFINITELY NOT THE OPERA, a show where we tell a lot of stories. It's on Saturday afternoons at 2PM across Canada. In the US you can hear it on Sirius Satellite Radio 137, or streaming on your computer. Download podcasts from itunes or www.cbc.ca/dnto where you'll find all sorts of stuff.
At the very bottom of this column are five videos I made with my friend filmmaker Andrea Dorfman for DNTO. The first one is a music video for BEAUTIFUL, a song I wrote for the Shortbus movie soundtrack. The final video is a locket sized portrait of my pal Mark Hartmaier. We had a lot of fun making these vids, which just goes to show; HOME MADE + LOW BUDGET =FUN!
Next are three films I wrote and directed. My very first film, ESCAPADES OF THE ONE PARTICULAR MR. NOODLE, GIRL CLEANS SINK starring my pals Lisa Ayuso and Jeremy Finkelstein (they're both non-actors and this was the first time they met and worked together) and UNLOCKED starring Lydia Klenck and Michael Leblanc. (Lydia's an amazing tattoo artist and clothing designer in Halifax. This is her acting debut!)
But first I want to share 3 new awesome DNTO animated short films of stories I wrote. Jon Izen directed "True Love", Anne Marie Fleming directed "I Won" and Jim Goodall directed "Orange". I've been turned into a cartoon character!
Yo Sook-Yin Lee, Whenever I listen to your music. I feel like singing too. But your talent is unmatched. How much time you spend to rehearse per day Sook-Yin Lee? Love ya. Do PS:Follow Me Twitter at http://twitter.com/iaent
Ahh I loved the piece on flaws. Yes they are humanizing and endearing and aren't all our favorite characters from literature (and I don't just mean the Quasimodo's of teh world) and film often deeply flawed? As for that deep frown line...you just gotta discipline yourself not to crinkle up like that. Then again you're an actress...expressionless and acting are not exactly sympatico are they?
Sigo muy preocupada con este tema, y ya han pasado meses...
No comprendo que pretende, ni cuales son sus verdaderas motivaciones, la verdad, cada dia entiendo menos todo esto, pero aunque no me llame y no sepa nada de él... siempre apoyaré a mi hijo incluso en una locura como esta.
Muchas gracias por estar ahí.
Arriba te dejo una img de mi hijo x si no sabes quien es.
"Thanks for the add" La Madre de Anonymous --------------------------------------- Who Am I - Experimento 2.0-
Hi Sook-Yin, Would love to share our music with you. Big fan of your Saturday air time. Sent you a cd longggggggggg time ago but never heard back. We have our second cd out in November. Please advise if you are interested and will send a copy out to you. Drop us a note some time ok. bye for now. dean SCG
