Grace Lee, Writer/Director

Grace Lee was born and raised in Columbia, Missouri. Her first feature film THE GRACE LEE PROJECT, an award-winning personal documentary on contemporary Asian female identity and stereotypes was hailed by Variety as "a funny but complex meditation on identity" and "ridiculously entertaining" by New York Magazine. The film opened theatrically in New York and Los Angeles to rave reviews and will be broadcast on the Sundance Channel in 2007.

Lee graduated from UCLA Film School with an MFA in Film Directing where her thesis film BARRIER DEVICE, starring Sandra Oh and Suzy Nakamura, won a 2002 Student Academy Award, a Directors Guild of America Student award, the Grand Jury Prize at the Urbanworld Film Festival among others. The film played in festivals internationally and aired on the Sundance Channel and is distributed by Shorts International. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 Faces of Independent Film, and has been awarded grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for her work. Prior to THE GRACE LEE PROJECT, she also directed the short documentaries BEST OF THE WURST funded by the Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg and CAMP ARIRANG, a film about U.S. military prostitution in South Korea distributed by Third World Newsreel.

She is currently completing her latest feature film project AMERICAN ZOMBIE and developing future projects.