Sook-Yin Lee’s new film is an adaptation of her former partner Chester Brown’s graphic novel, which chronicles the author’s encounters with Toronto sex workers
Film maker, musician and broadcaster Sook-Yin Lee in her kitchen in Toronto, on Aug. 8. Lee ’s house served as one of the backdrops to her new movie, Paying For It, an adaptation of her former partner Chester Brown ’s graphic novel of the same name.If Toronto is a city of neighbourhoods, then Kensington Market is a neighbourhood splintered into a thousand tiny, gritty dreamscapes. Wander down enough alleys, peer into enough windows, and you’re bound to encounter altogether different worlds.
Lee went through several versions of the script over the years, struggling to balance Brown’s journey as a character with the political elements of sex work and its historical criminalization that were both baked into the story and given fuller life in the book’s copious appendices and notes. “While reading the book for the umpteenth time, I noticed that Chester saw a sex worker on my birthday. So then it clicked as a story about questioning possessive pride, monogamy, how consensual sex work is still criminalized – arguments that could be hung on the setup of him and I living together,” says Lee, who now shares her home with musician Dylan Gamble.
Lee Brown Film Lee Book Home Life Chester Chester L.A. Montreal
Canada Latest News, Canada Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
TIFF 2024: Rogers jumps aboard TIFF as top sponsorThe Toronto International Film Festival says it has signed up Rogers Communications as its new 'presenting sponsor,' but only for the film festival itself and only for a single year.
Read more »
57 must-see movies at TIFF 2024 according to its programmersTIFF 2024 is around the corner, and the slate has been selected and film fans from around the city and around the world are busily selecting their ...
Read more »
Dystopian themes, real-world issues spotlighted in Canadian films at TIFFThe dystopian themes in this year’s lineup speak to the pandemic years we’ve lived through and the environmental challenges facing us today, said TIFF’s Chief Programming Officer Anita Lee
Read more »
Dystopian themes, real-world issues spotlighted in Canadian films at TIFFDystopian themes and real-world issues take centre stage in the Canadian titles at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
Read more »
TIFF 2024: Dystopian themes, real-world issues spotlighted at festivalDystopian themes and real-world issues take centre stage in the Canadian titles at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
Read more »
Dystopian themes, real-world issues spotlighted in Canadian films at TIFFDystopian themes and real-world dilemmas reflecting the anxieties of our time take centre stage in the Canadian offerings at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
Read more »