Public bio
Grace Lee directed and produced the Peabody Award-winning
AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE
BOGGS about the legendary civil rights activist which The Hollywood
Reporter called “an entertainingly revealing portrait of the power of a
single individual to effect change.” The film won multiple festival
audience awards and was broadcast on the PBS documentary series
POV. Other directing credits include the Emmy-nominated MAKERS:
WOMEN IN POLITICS for PBS; the interactive online documentary K-TOWN ‘92 about the
1992 Los Angeles civil unrest, OFF THE MENU: ASIAN AMERICA; and the feature film
JANEANE FROM DES MOINES, set during the 2012 presidential campaign, which
premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. She has been a Sundance Institute Fellow, a 2017
Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Award winner, an envoy of the American Film Showcase and
is co-founder of the Asian American Documentary Network. She recently directed and
produced two episodes of PBS’ five-part series ASIAN AMERICANS which broadcasts
nationally in May 2020 and is producer/director of POV's first broadcast mini-series AND SHE COULD BE NEXT.