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    Oct 11, 05:34 PM by administrator

    What’s In A Name?

    Fri. Nov. 3rd, 7:00 PM

    Filmmakers use the camera to pose questions about human relations while looking for answers to longstanding questions. In SAYONARA SUPER 8, the filmmaker experiments with the camera to examine rhetorical questions, while in THE GRACE LEE PROJECT, the camera investigates one’s identity through a shared name.

    The Grace Lee Project



    Director: Grace Lee | Producers: Grace Lee, Amy Ferraris
    Documentary | Beta | Colour | 2005 | 68 minutes | USA

    When award-winning Korean-American filmmaker Grace Lee was growing up in Missouri, she was the only Grace Lee she knew. As an adult, however, she moved to New York and then California, where 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 of all those Grace Lees who break the mold, including the fiery social activist Grace Lee Boggs, the rebel Grace Lee who tried to burn down her high school, and the Silicon Valley teenager Grace Lee who spends evenings doing homework, playing piano, and painting graphic pictures of death and destruction. With wit and charm, THE GRACE LEE PROJECT puts a hilarious spin on the eternal question, “What’s in a name?”

    Selected Screenings:
    San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, 2005
    Los Angeles Film Festival, 2005
    South by Southwest Film Festival, 2005

    Vancouver Premiere

    preceded by:

    Sayonara Super 8



    Director/Writer: Pia Massie | Producer: NFB
    Experimental | Beta | Colour | 2006 | 6 minutes | Canada

    Using personal archival footage, the filmmaker asks questions about the fragile nature of memory, human relationships, and the foibles of the medium itself.

    Director in Attendance

    Celebrity Host for this program:

    Yee Jee Tso


    After 13 years and over 40 professional acting credits, Yee Jee has only recently been cast in the most enjoyable and rewarding role of his life: “Father” in the new hit series Alija Tso, playing on every channel, allof the time, twice on Sundays at 3:00 AM.



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