AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY, Civil Rights Pioneer Grace Lee Boggs Doc with dir. Grace Lee

Grace Lee Boggs is one of the great unlikely civil rights pioneers of America. Chinese-American, she has spent years among the disenfranchised communities of Detroit espousing direct citizen action to improve society, and her story is told in the documentary, AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY by director, Grace Lee, who joins BYOD to discuss the film and the moving story behind the chronicle of an American treasure.

GUEST BIO
Grace Lee is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker of both fiction and documentary films. Her feature film about the 2012 Presidential campaign, JANEANE FROM DES MOINES, premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. Prior to that, she wrote and directed AMERICAN ZOMBIE, which premiered at Slamdance and SXSW before being released by Cinema Libre. She also produced and directed THE GRACE LEE PROJECT, a feature documentary on Asian American identity and stereotypes that was broadcast on Sundance Channel and is distributed by Women Make Movies. Grace received her MFA in Directing from UCLA Film School, where her thesis film BARRIER DEVICE, won a Student Academy Award and Directors Guild of America award. She is the recipient of the Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Digital Media, a Rockefeller Media Arts grant, the PPP Pusan Prize as well as funding from the NEA, Center for Asian American Media, Chicken and Egg Pictures and the Ford Foundation. She is currently producing and directing a documentary for PBS about Asian American food culture and has released, American Revolutionary.

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EPISODE BREAKDOWN
0001 Welcome to BYOD.
0017 Welcoming Grace Lee to the show.
0227 The Grace Lee Project as a journey that lead to Grace Lee Boggs.
0359 AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY, Clip.
0804 Why do we care about Grace Lee Boggs?
1500 AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY, Clip.
1645 The impact of being a Chinese-American woman.
2222 AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY, Clip Marx in 30 seconds.
2540 Relating to the struggle of Black people in America.
2930 Grace embraces technology.
3501 The clock of the universe.
4031 AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY, Clip.