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| GRANT RECIPIENTS: GRACE LEE |
 GRACE
LEE was born and raised in Missouri but now
lives in Los Angeles, where she is
completing her MFA in Film Directing at
UCLA's School of Theater, Film and
Television. Her previous short fiction films
GIRL MEETS BOY and THE RIDE HOME have
screened widely in festivals such as the
2000 Cannes Film Festival, Women in the
Director's Chair, Films de Femmes, Krakow
'international Film Festival, Urban World
Film Festival, Asian American International
Film Festival, the French cable channel
Cinecinemas and on Atomfilms. She is
currently completing her thesis film BARRIER
DEVICE (starring Sandra Oh from HBO's Arli$$"
and is in production on THE GRACE LEE
PROJECT a documentary about people named
Grace Lee.
Prior to film school, she co
produced and directed "Camp Arirang," an
award-winning short documentary about
militarized prostitution in South Korea
which screened at the Margaret Mead
International Documentary Festival, San
Francisco International Asian American Film
Festival, Women in the Director's Chair and
aired on WYBE TV's "Through the Lens" series
among many others. While at UCLA, she has
received numerous awards, including a UCLA
Spotlight Award for "The Ride Home," the
Rita Morrison Award for Artistic Merit, the
Motion Picture Association of America Award
and the Edge and L ew Wasserman Award for
Film Production. Grace is currently
developing several projects, including a
feature length screenplay that she plans to
direct.
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