When award-winning Korean-American filmmaker Grace Lee was growing

up in Missouri, she was the only Grace Lee she knew. But when

she later moved to New York and California, everyone she met seemed to

know "another Grace Lee." But why did they assume that all Grace Lees

were nice, dutiful, piano-playing bookworms? Pursuing the moving target of

Asian American female identity, the filmmaker plunges into a clever, 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?"

Grace Lee is an award-winning writer/director whose short films have screened at festivals all

over the world including Berlin, Tribeca, Pusan and Los Angeles. Named one of Filmmaker

Magazine's ?25 New Faces of Independent Film,? Grace received her MFA from UCLA Film

School in 2002. Her thesis film, BARRIER DEVICE, starring Sandra Oh, won a 2002 Student

Academy Award, a Directors Guild of America Student Award, LA Asian/Pacific Film Festival?s

Golden Reel Award and Urbanworld?s Grand Jury Prize, and was broadcast on the Sundance

Channel. She also directed BEST OF THE WURST, a documentary essay about Berlin today,

which has been showcased at festivals worldwide and was funded by the Medienboard Berlin

Brandenburg.