Grace Lee: "Makers: Women, History, and Asian American Stories"
Department: Film and Media Studies
Date and Time: May 20, 2015 | 12:00 PM-1:30 PMEvent Location: Humanities Hall 143
Event Details
Grace Lee’s thesis film BARRIER DEVICE won a Student Academy Award and Directors Guild of America award. In 2015, she directed and produced a documentary for PBS called Off the Menu: Asian America and completed an episode for the PBS MAKERS series on women in politics. Lee and coproducer Caroline Libresco recently received a Peabody award for their feature documentary AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: about 97-year-old Detroit philosopher and activist Grace Lee Boggs. Previous credits include the feature film Janeane From Des Moines, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, American Zombie, which premiered at Slamdance and SXSW and is distributed by Cinema Libre, and The Grace Lee Project which opened theatrically and was broadcast on Sundance Channel.
This event is free and open to the public with limited seating.