www.gracelee.net About the Grace Lee Project When Korean American filmmaker Grace Lee was growing up in Missouri, she was the only Grace Lee she knew. Once she left the Midwest however, everyone she met seemed to know “another Grace Lee.” But why did they assume that all Grace Lees were reserved, dutiful, piano-playing overachievers? The filmmaker plunges into a highly unscientific investigation into all those Grace Lees who break the mold — from a fiery social activist to a rebel who tried to burn down her high school. With wit and charm, THE GRACE LEE PROJECT puts a hilarious spin on the eternal question, “What’s in a name?” My name is Grace Lee. I am a filmmaker — not to be mistaken with the other filmmaker Grace Lee in Portland, Oregon, who’s originally from Chicago. I’m the Grace Lee from Columbia, Missouri, now residing in Los Angeles, with stops in Seoul, New York, and San Francisco in between. When I was growing up in Missouri in the ’70s and ’80s, I was the only Grace Lee I knew; in fact, I was usually the only Asian girl around. All this changed when I left for New York, and later California, where I would meet people who would insist on telling me about “another Grace Lee” they once knew. Most of the time these other Grace Lees were only faintly remembered. They were “good girls” who listened to their parents, violin prodigies, 16-year-old Harvard freshmen, devout Christians. The more I heard about these other Grace Lees, the more I became convinced that …
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