PREVIOUS WORK
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM PREMIERED TIFF 2020
NO ORDINARY MAN
Directed by Aisling Chin-Yee & Chase Joynt
Starring Billy Tipton, Marquise Vilson, Zackary Drucker, Thomas Page McBee, Kate Bornstein, and C. Riley Snorton.
Written by Aisling Chin-Yee & Amos Mac
Produced by Parabola Films
Edited by Aisling Chin-Yee
Distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories and Level Films
Coming soon to the Criterion Channel
June 2023
NO ORDINARY MAN is an in-depth look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton. Complicated, beautiful and historically unrivaled, this groundbreaking film shows what is possible when a community collaborates to honor the legacy of an unlikely hero. Premiered at TIFF, AFI, DOCNYC, BFI FLARE, RIDM, FIN, VIFF, CIFF, Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival Reframe Festival, and more.
Audience Award for Favorite Documentary Feature – Seattle Transgender Film Festival. 2021.
Best Editing of a Documentary Feature Film - Directors Guild of Canada 2021.
Best Editing of a Documentary Feature Film - Directors Guild of Canada 2021.
Best Canadian Feature Film Award – Gimli Film Festival. 2021.
Portrait Documentary Award – Cleveland International Film Festival. 2021.
Best Canadian Film – Reelout Film Festival. 2021.
Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature – Mardi Gras Film Festival. 2021.
Audience Award – South Western International Film Festival. 2020.
TIFF Canada’s Top Ten – Toronto International Film Festival. 2020.
Best Canadian Feature – Inside Out Film and Video Festival. 2020.
New Visions Award – RIDM: Montreal Documentary Film Festival. 2020.
FEATURE FILM PREMIERED TIFF 2019
THE REST OF US
Directed by Aisling Chin-Yee
Starring Heather Graham, Sophie Nélisse, Jodi Balfour
Written by Alanna Francis
Produced by Babe Nation Films
Edited by Veronique Barbe & Aisling Chin-Yee
Distributed by Gravitas and Level Films
Hulu, Netflix UK, Crave Canada, CBC Gem
A divorced mother and her daughter must contend with living in the same house as the ex-husband's second wife and daughter following his unexpected death.
Premiered at TIFF, Palm Springs International Film Festival, CIFF, FIN, SIFF, and many more
Nominated for Best Editing of a Feature film for CEE.
LIMITED TELEVISION SERIES 2023
plan b
Episodes 3,4,5 directed by Aisling Chin-Yee
Starring Patrick J Adams, Karine Vanasse, François Arnaud, and Josh Close.
Written by Jean François Asselin and Jacques Drolet.
Produced by KOTV
Distributed by CBC and Arrow Media
CBC Gem
An ambitious young lawyer discovers a way to travel through time to fix his relationships and create his perfect life, but even when he knows what will happen next, he can’t control everything.
Aisling Chin-Yee produced the feature films Rhymes for Young Ghouls, Last Woman Standing, Lost Generation, and Inside these Walls. Along with writing, and directing the award-winning short films, Synesthesia, and Sound Asleep.