Aisling Chin-Yee

Chin-Yee was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 2004, Chin-Yee graduated from Concordia University with a degree in communication studies and a minor in film studies, concentrated in film production, theory, and analysis.^[5]

In 2006, Chin-Yee started her career as associate producer at the National Film Board of Canada. In 2010, she joined Prospector Films as producer.^[6]

Her short film, Sound Asleep (2014), premiered at Lucerne International Film Festival. In 2015, her documentary film, Synesthesia, won best short documentary at the Crossroads Film Festival.^[7] she co-created the #AfterMeToo movement in 2017 along with Mia Kirshner and Freya Ravensbergen that consisted of a symposium, a report, and fund in partnership with the Canadian Women's Foundation.^[8][9]

Chin-Yee's directorial debut feature film, The Rest of Us, starring Heather Graham, Sophie Nélisse and Jodi Balfour, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.^[10] She was nominated for best feature film editing by the Canadian Cinema Editors in 2020.^[11] In 2020, she co-directed the documentary feature film about Billy Tipton, No Ordinary Man, with Chase Joynt, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.^[12][13] In 2023, she directed three episodes of the CBC Television series, Plan B.^[14]

Chin-Yee was for some time in the 2010s the romantic partner of the late filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée, who died of arrhythmia on December 25, 2021.^[15] They met in 2015 at the Canadian Governor General's Awards for the Performing Arts.^[16]