【大師講堂】Master Class, Sep 26^th

姓名Name｜Grace LEE

職稱Job Title｜導演 Director

導演介紹 About Director｜

韓裔美籍導演Grace Lee身兼製片與編劇，作品包含敘事片與非虛構影片。Grace Lee執導的《美國革命：陳玉平的演進》(American Revolutionary: The evolution of Grace Lee Boggs) 在2014年獲得皮博迪 (Peabody Award) 紀錄片獎。《好萊塢記者》(The Hollywood Reporter) 報導《美國革命》一片「有趣地呈現推動改變的單一個人力量」。《美國革命》在洛杉磯電影節首映會上囊括六個獎項，其後亦在美國公共電視服務網 (PBS) 的紀錄片系列節目《角度》(POV) 中播出。

Grace Lee先前的紀錄片作品The Grace Lee Project（暫譯：《Grace Lee計畫》） 亦獲多項獎項，並於日舞電影台 (Sundance Channel) 放映。《紐約雜誌》 (New York Magazine) 指出The Grace Lee Project有著「令人不可置信的強大娛樂性」，《綜藝雜誌》(Variety) 則報導該片在「認同與文化期待上做出了既有趣又複雜的省思」。

Grace Lee另執導以2012年總統大選為背景的Janeane from Des Moines （暫譯：《來自愛荷華州首府德梅因的珍寧》）。2012年多倫多國際電影節首映《來》，同場亦播放Grace Lee執導並參演的另一部作品《美國殭屍》(American Zombie)。《美國殭屍》於聖萊姆丹斯電影節 (Slamdance)首映並由自由劇院 (Cinema Libre) 發行。Grace Lee擁有加州大學洛杉磯分校 (UCLA) 電影學院頒發的電影執導藝術創作碩士學位，在學期間執導的短片Barrier Device （暫譯：《阻隔裝置》）獲頒學生奧斯卡獎 (Student Academy Award)。該片由韓裔加籍演員吳珊卓 (Sandra Oh) 與日裔美籍演員蘇茜中村 (Suzy Nakamura) 演出。

Grace Lee常返母校，也到其他大學擔任客座講者與講師。此外，她也是獨立精神獎 (Independent Spirit Awards)、洛杉磯電影節 (Los Angeles Film Festival)、日舞影展協會紀錄片基金(Sundance Documentary Fund)、《角度》教育委員會 (POV EdComm)、亞美媒體中心 (Center for Asian American Media)與國際紀錄片協會 (International Documentary Association) 等組織的小組成員或評審。2014-15年，Grace Lee為PBS製導 Makers: Women in Politics (暫譯：《製作者：政治圈的女性》) 與《美國亞裔食譜》(Off the Menu: Asian America) 兩部紀錄片，目前則為 2016年聖丹斯女影人培訓計畫 (2016 Women at Sundance Fellow) 的一員。

GRACE LEE is an independent producer & director and writer working in both narrative and non-fiction film. She directed the 2014 Peabody Award-winning documentary AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS, which The Hollywood Reporter called ”an entertainingly revealing portrait of the power of a single individual to effect change.” The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival where it won its first of six audience awards before its broadcast on the PBS documentary series POV. Her previous documentary THE GRACE LEE PROJECT won multiple awards, broadcast on the Sundance Channel and was called “ridiculously entertaining” by New York Magazine and “ a funny but complex meditation on identity and cultural expectation,” by Variety.

Other feature directing credits include JANEANE FROM DES MOINES, set during the 2012 presidential campaign, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival as well as AMERICAN ZOMBIE, a personal horror film, which premiered at Slamdance and is distributed by Cinema Libre. Grace received her MFA in Film Directing from UCLA Film School where her short film BARRIER DEVICE, starring Sandra Oh and Suzy Nakamura, won a Student Academy Award. Grace returns to her alma mater and other universities frequently as a guest speaker and lecturer. She has served on panels and juries including the Independent Spirit Awards, Los Angeles Film Festival, Sundance Documentary Fund, POV’s EdComm, Center for Asian American Media, and the International Documentary Association. Most recently in 2014 and 2015, she produced and directed two documentaries for PBS: MAKERS: WOMEN IN POLITICS and OFF THE MENU: ASIAN AMERICA. She is currently a 2016 Women at Sundance Fellow