6-02-05 GRACE LEE project up!

Please go support! This is a very cute film...

Dear Friends,

I'm pleased to announce that my feature documentary The Grace Lee Project will be having its Los Angeles premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 19 and 21st. Please join me, and several other Grace Lees at the Sunset 5. Tickets go on sale starting today. Order early -- even if you think you have time -- both screenings in San Francisco were sold out. We could fill a whole theater with southern California Grace Lees alone!

Hope to see you there, and feel free to email me if you have any questions.

More info on the film at http://www.gracelee.net

Best,
Grace



Here's the info: Feel free to forward...

THE GRACE LEE PROJECT
Screening in the Los Angeles Film Festival
Documentary Competition

Sunday, June 19, 3pm
Laemmle Sunset 5
8000 Sunset Blvd.

Tuesday, June 21, 9:30pm
Laemmle Sunset 5

Tickets are $10 ($9 for FIND (formerly IFP West) members)

For more info and to purchase tickets online (beginning June 1) visit

http://www.lafilmfest.com

Tickets can be purchased in advance at 1.866.345-6337 M-F, 10am-6pm or at the box office one hour prior to screening (if they are still available!)


Some more info about the film:

THE GRACE LEE PROJECT

Does your name dictate the kind of person you become? Filmmaker Grace Lee, often having been introduced to someone only to hear, “I know a Grace Lee,” takes us on a brilliant, hilarious journey to uncover “Who is Grace Lee, anyway?” Smartly paced with humorous sidebars, Lee's eponymous project traces the chicken-and-egg name-is-fate dilemma from the perspectives of people who claim to have known the ubiquitous yet somehow elusive Grace Lee, and from multiple Grace Lees who reveal themselves to her.

While the filmmaker wonders why she's so unlike the smart, quiet, violin-playing girl everyone seems to know, viewers ponder their own individuality. Maybe 'Grace Lee' is the default category for Asian American women. The film reveals the intriguing contradiction that this person/a is simultaneously impressive and forgettable, special and generic, an emblem of a subculture and an individual who defies categorization. With wit and charm, THE GRACE LEE PROJECT challenges the personal and cultural investments made in Grace Lee, all the while sending a love letter to her.

- from the SF Intl Asian American Film Festival


Some reviews:

"a funny but complex meditation on identity, ethnicity and cultural expectations that should be as accessible to teens as adults." -- Variety, March 16, 2005

"...a documentary filled with personality, humor, and, well, grace." -- The Austin Chronicle

"humorous and, well, graceful exploration of Asian American women's identity." -- The San Francisco Bay Guardian

"The result is a funny, up-beat film that says a lot without a single preachy or didactic moment. Learning about American subcultures has rarely been this much fun or as informative." -- RottenTomatoes.com




The Grace Lee Project
http://www.gracelee.net

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