Talent Guide

Grace Lee

  • Discipline:Director, Producer
  • Program Year:Documentary Lab 2012, Grants and Awards 2012

Bio

Grace Lee’s most recent feature film, American Zombie, premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival, went on to screen at festivals such as SXSW, Sitges Fantastic Film Festival and was released by Cinema Libre in 2008. Prior to that, she produced, wrote and directed The Grace Lee Project, a feature documentary that was called “ridiculously entertaining” by New York Magazine. The film opened theatrically in several cities, was broadcast on Sundance Channel and is distributed by Women Make Movies. Lee received her MFA in Directing from UCLA Film School, where her thesis film Barrier Device, won a Student Academy Award and Directors Guild of America award, screened in dozens of festivals, aired on Sundance Channel, and is distributed by Shorts International. She is the recipient of the Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Digital Media, a Rockefeller Media Arts grant, the PPP Pusan Prize as well as funding from the NEA, Center for Asian American Media, UCLA Institute for American Cultures and Film Independent Spirit Awards 2012 Giorgio Armani Directing Fellowship. Other documentary credits include Best of the Wurst, which is permanently featured at the Currywurst Museum in Berlin and Camp Arirang. Lee is currently in post-production on the feature documentary American Revolutionary about the evolution of 96-year-old Detroit philosopher and activist Grace Lee Boggs.

Current Project

American Revolutionary (Documentary Feature)

Logline

A 96-year-old revolutionary philosopher in Detroit offers a voice of hope and a program of action for transforming her city, the United States and the world.