Screening times:
Thursday, June 12, 6:30 PM - Fleapit screening with director Sook-Yin Lee attending!
Sook-Yin Lee | Canada, Ontario | 2024 | 85m
Toronto director Sook-Yin Lee will attend this screening for an in-person post-film Q&A!
Also screening two more times at Carbon Arc Cinema:
Friday, June 13, 6:00 PM
Sunday, June 15, 7:45 PM
When an introverted cartoonist’s girlfriend wants to redefine their relationship, he begins sleeping with sex workers and discovers a new kind of intimacy in the process.
Paying For It is directed and co-written by Sook-Yin Lee, and adapted from the graphic novel by Chester Brown.
"Lee is a master of tension and finding humor within people’s inconsistencies." - Zachary Lee, RogerEbert.com
"'Paying for It' becomes a provocative romance in the style of Pedro Almodóvar (check out those bold primary colours) crossed with a documentary about alternative life paths (many of the sex workers in the film are real)." - Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Winner: Best Feature Fiction - Available Light Film Festival 2025
Sook-Yin Lee (Writer, Director, Co-Producer) is a Toronto-based filmmaker, musician, actor and broadcaster (CBC, BBC, MuchMusic). She starred in Shortbus , the ground-breaking 2SLGBTQ+ movie directed by John Cameron Mitchell that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Her feature film writer and directorial debut, Year of the Carnivore, starring Cristin Milioti, premiered at TIFF. In 2014, Lee won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by a Lead Dramatic Actress in Jack and went on to write and perform Unsafe for Canadian Stage, which examined questions of censorship and artistic freedom. She won Best Director and Best Picture at the 2018 Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival for Octavio is Dead! --a ghost story starring Sarah Gadon and Rosanna Arquette. Death and Sickness , her feature movie made with Dylan Gamble, streams on CBC Gem. She acts in Darkest Miriam, executive produced by Charlie Kaufman, and is set to release her experimental comedy Rest and Relax . Sook-Yin is a music recording artist and film score composer. She contributed songs to Brandon Cronenberg's horror movies Infinity Pool and Antiviral. More: sookyinlee.com
June 12 Fleapit Presents + director Q&A tickets $10.95 each ($10 cash at the door if available).
As all ticket proceeds go to Fleapit Cinema, we cannot offer punch pass reservations to Fleapit’s June 12 screening (apologies!). However, punch pass reservations are valid for the Carbon Arc June 13 and 15 screenings of Paying For It.
June 13 and 15 tickets $12 each ($11.40 cash at the door if available). Prices include HST and online booking fees where applicable.
