Min Sook Lee discusses art and activism and how her films about/with migrant workers are a tool for migrant worker justice at this event. Showing excerpts from her award-winning documentaries, she talks about building a sense of authorial voice and strengthening community engagement over time followed by a conversation and Q&A moderated by Chris Ramsaroop of Justicia for Migrant Workers.

Min Sook Lee’s filmography includes: El Contrato (Cesar E. Chavex Black Eagle Award), about the lives of Mexican migrant workers in Ontario, and and Hogtown, an analysis of the politics of policing in Toronto’s city hall ( Best Canadian Documentary Prize, Hot Docs ). Her documentary The Real Inglorious Bastards received a Canadian Screen Award for Best History Documentary. She teaches documentary filmmaking at Toronto Metropolitan University and is was, at the time of this event, working on her documentary Migrant Dreams about migrant women workers in Canada that was released in 2016.