list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around The Grace Lee Project on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/The_Grace_Lee_Project/259585/default.aspx Title: The Grace Lee Project
Year: 2005
Director: Grace Lee
Plot: Grace Lee is a filmmaker who, when she left her hometown of Columbia, MO, for New York City, and later for California, began to notice that her name was unusually common among Asian-American women -- someone described as the Asian-American equivalent of "Jane Smith." What troubled Lee most wasn't just that so many Asian women shared her name, but that it seemed to conjure up a very particular sort of person in the eyes of many -- a quiet, studious over-achiever who was cheerful, Christian, and never got into trouble. Lee didn't much care to be associated with a classic stereotype of an "ethnic American" desperate to assimilate with the larger culture, and she began to wonder -- is every Grace Lee like this? Lee set up a website to search out other Grace Lee's around the country, and followed up her research with a series of interviews that she fashioned into her film The Grace Lee Project. While Lee found plenty of women who lived up to the "Grace Lee" image, she also found many who didn't, including an elderly activist in Detroit's African-American community, a teenage goth kid who makes voodoo dolls for fun and profit, a fortysomething single parent who helped her best friend leave behind an abusive husband, a Hawaiian broadcast journalist, and a young troublemaker who attempted to burn down her high school. Incidentally, the Grace Lee who made The Grace Lee Project learned she wasn't the only Grace Lee who directs movies -- a Grace Lee living in Portland, OR, is also a filmmaker. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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]]>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:45:05 GMTThe Grace Lee Project2005Grace LeeGrace Lee is a filmmaker who, when she left her hometown of Columbia, MO, for New York City, and later for California, began to notice that her name was unusually common among Asian-American women -- someone described as the Asian-American equivalent of "Jane Smith." What troubled Lee most wasn't just that so many Asian women shared her name, but that it seemed to conjure up a very particular sort of person in the eyes of many -- a quiet, studious over-achiever who was cheerful, Christian, and never got into trouble. Lee didn't much care to be associated with a classic stereotype of an "ethnic American" desperate to assimilate with the larger culture, and she began to wonder -- is <I>every</I> Grace Lee like this? Lee set up a website to search out other Grace Lee's around the country, and followed up her research with a series of interviews that she fashioned into her film The Grace Lee Project. While Lee found plenty of women who lived up to the "Grace Lee" image, she also found many who didn't, including an elderly activist in Detroit's African-American community, a teenage goth kid who makes voodoo dolls for fun and profit, a fortysomething single parent who helped her best friend leave behind an abusive husband, a Hawaiian broadcast journalist, and a young troublemaker who attempted to burn down her high school. Incidentally, the Grace Lee who made The Grace Lee Project learned she wasn't the only Grace Lee who directs movies -- a Grace Lee living in Portland, OR, is also a filmmaker. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide25Tag Target (>10)213http://www.spout.com/images/no_image.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/The_Grace_Lee_Project/259585/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2007/10/25/21190.aspxPost By: SpoutBlog
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Body: Agnes Varnum points to the International Museum of Women’s Online Film Festival, through which you can watch a new film by a female director every day through the month of October. There’s some good stuff, including The Grace Lee Project, and a fascinating short documentary that I just watched by Turkish filmmaker Melis Birder called The Tenth Planet: A Single Woman’s Life in Baghdad. Filmmaker Melis Birder went to Baghdad in January 2004 looking for a story, and found one in the social life of her translator, an unmarried 20-something working woman named Kawkab. Kawkab and her friends and family speak incredibly candidly about sex, marriage, Sunni/Shia conflict, the difficulties of an infant democracy, and life in Baghdad after the U.S. occupation. Watch it here, and for more information on the film, see its official website. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:01:32 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com10/25/2007 5:01:32 PM Agnes Varnum points to the International Museum of Women’s Online Film Festival, through which you can watch a new film by a female director every day through the month of October. There’s some good stuff, including The Grace Lee Project, and a fascinating short documentary that I just watched by Turkish filmmaker Melis Birder called The Tenth Planet: A Single Woman’s Life in Baghdad. Filmmaker Melis Birder went to Baghdad in January 2004 looking for a story, and found one in the social life of her translator, an unmarried 20-something working woman named Kawkab. Kawkab and her friends and family speak incredibly candidly about sex, marriage, Sunni/Shia conflict, the difficulties of an infant democracy, and life in Baghdad after the U.S. occupation. Watch it here, and for more information on the film, see its official website. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/documentary/MemberTagFilms.aspxdocumentary
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