Guest Filmmaker Week | Grace Lee

UCI DigiFilm | Guest Filmmaker Week

Grace Lee

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

1:00 - 2:15 p.m.

Via Zoom

Join us for a Zoom conversation with Peabody Award-winning film director Grace Lee. Grace will talk about her approaches to directing and her new PBS series Asian Americans. After the conversation, we will have 15 minutes of Q&A. This talk is part of our Guest Filmmaker Week and is made possible with the generous support of UCI Illuminations, and produced in partnership with DigiFilm Society at UC Irvine.

About the Guest Speaker

Grace Lee is an independent producer & director and writer working in both narrative and non-fiction film. She directed the Peabody Award-winning documentary AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS, which The Hollywood

Reporter called ”an entertainingly revealing portrait of the power of a single individual to effect change.” The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival where it won its first of six audience awards before its broadcast on the PBS documentary series POV. Her previous documentary THE GRACE LEE PROJECT won multiple awards, broadcast on the Sundance Channel and was called “ridiculously entertaining” by New York Magazine and “ a funny but complex meditation on identity and cultural expectation,” by Variety. Other credits include the Emmy-nominated MAKERS: WOMEN IN POLITICS and OFF THE MENU: ASIAN AMERICA, both for PBS; JANEANE FROM DES MOINES, set during the 2012 presidential campaign, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival as well as AMERICAN ZOMBIE, a personal horror film, which premiered at Slamdance and is distributed by Cinema Libre. She has been a Sundance Institute Fellow, a 2017 Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Award winner, an envoy of the American Film Showcase (through USC and the U.S. State Department), and is co-founder of the Asian American Documentary Network. She is also an Executive Committee Member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her work has been supported by numerous awards and artist grants from the likes of Rockefeller, Ford Foundation, Sundance Institute, UCLA, International Documentary Association and the USC World Building Institute. She is currently a producer/director on a five-part landmark PBS series THE ASIAN AMERICANS as well as AND SHE COULD BE NEXT, about women of color transforming politics and civic engagement.

The event is free and open to the public. Space is limited.

RSVP for a free ticket here.

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UCI DigiFilm | Guest Filmmaker Week

May 26 - 29, 2020

UCI Digifilm presents five guest filmmakers and industry professionals for conversations with students and the public. All events are free and open to the public. Space is limited. RSVP for a free ticket at digifilm.arts.uci.edu.

May 26: Jason Bauer, Local 600, digital imaging technician
May 27: Grace Lee, independent producer & director and writer working in both narrative and non-fiction film.
May 27: Maisie Hoy, ACE, Emmy-nominated feature film editor.
May 28: Rachel Mason, artist, musician and filmmaker from Los Angeles.
May 29: Quyen Tran, Los Angeles-based cinematographer

Dates: 
May 27, 2020 - 1:00pm
May 27, 2020 - 2:15pm