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Grace Lee

BIOGRAPHY

Grace Lee is an award-winning filmmaker working at the intersection of storytelling, activism, and community. Her work spans film, television, podcasts, and digital platforms, including the Peabody winning American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs and Asian Americans documentary series for PBS, And She Could Be Next, The Grace Lee Project and the podcast Viewers Like Us. She is co-founder of A-Doc, a national network supporting Asian Americans in the documentary field and brings a long track record of creating work that moves across mediums and mobilizes audiences. Her most recent film Forever We Are Young, about the passionate fandom for K-pop superstars BTS was released in cinemas worldwide in 2025. She has been supported by the United States Artist Fellowship, Ford Foundation/Just Films, MacArthur Foundation, NEA, ITVS, Sundance Institute, Chicken and Egg Pictures, IDA Enterprise Fund and others. She is a co-founder of the Asian American Documentary Network (A-Doc),and is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Documentary branch.

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