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Friday,
June 2 at 7:00pm
Scribe
Video Center presents
The
Grace Lee Project - Philadelphia
Premiere
dir.
Grace Lee, 2005, US, video, 68 mins, color
Director
Grace Lee in person
A
funny but complex meditation on identity, ethnicity and cultural
expectations. - Variety
 When
award-winning Korean-American filmmaker Grace Lee was growing
up in Missouri, she was the only Grace Lee she knew. When she
later moved to New York and California, however, 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, Grace Lee created a website, www.gracelee.net, and
was plunged into a clever, highly unscientific investigation
into all those Grace Lees who break the mold. Exceptions to
the stereotype soon emerge from a fiery Detroit social activist
to a TV news reporter in Hawaii to a baby Goth who handcrafts
voodoo dolls to a friend who shelters her friend from an abusive
relationship. 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. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s
“25 New Faces in Independent Film” and won the Emerging
Director Award for The Grace Lee Project at the New
York Asian American International Film Festival. She received
her MFA from UCLA Film School in 2002. Her film Barrier
Device starring Sandra Oh, won a 2002 Student Academy Award,
LA Asian/Pacific Film Festival’s Golden Reel and Urbanworld’s
Grand Jury Prize and was broadcast on the Sundance Channel.
Preceded
by an excerpt from Asians Misbehavin'
dir.
Daniel Kim, Michelle Myers and Anula Shetty, 2006, US, video,
15 mins, color
In
2001, Daniel Kim, Michelle Myers and Anula Shetty came together
to form the sketch comedy troupe Asians Misbehavin'. In live
performance, they subvert the myths and stereotypes of being
Asian in America through a fast-paced blend of spoken word,
standup comedy, monologue, and sketch comedy. Show highlights
include "Sweet & Sour" -- a parody of Asian-themed
Hollywood movies and "How to Spot an Asiaphile" --
an infomercial (of sorts). Asians Misbehavin' is a
new 30 minute video version of their live performance.
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$8
members, students + seniors, $10 general admission.
Available
at 
or 866.468.7619 and 1/2 hour
before showtime at
the Box Office.
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