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- 1 2 Chandler Levack, "Sook-Yin Lee and Canada’s new queer cinema". The Globe and Mail , May 25, 2018.
- ↑ "Octavio is Dead prepped for T.O. shoot". Playback , January 19, 2017.
- ↑ "Octavio Is Dead". Rotten Tomatoes . Fandango . Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ↑ "2019 Canadian Screen Awards lean toward Quebec and the obscure, and thank goodness for that". The Globe and Mail , February 7, 2019.
- ↑ "CBC Films Celebrates Canadian Features This Summer". Channel Canada, July 13, 2019.
