Dear Friends and Supporters of the new voice of Asian American Cinema, -
Please share this with friends across the nation and especially in New York
area

On December 14 - December 27, Asian American filmmaker Grace Lee will have
her theatrical premiere of her feature documentary "THE GRACE LEE PROJECT"
in New York City at the Film Forum in SoHo. This is the first theatrical
exhibition of the film and all of the other theatres across the US are
watching the box office on the film to decide whether or not they will
select the film for their theatres. This includes other theaters in New
York to San Francisco to Los Angeles to Seattle to Chicago to Boston to
Dallas to Hawaii to Atlanta to DC to Denver and others. All theatrical
eyes are watching how the film will do.

We are asking that on that first weekend and throughout its run, all of you
in New York City and the surrounding areas come together and support this
film by buying tickets and seeing this great film by this new voice of
Asian American cinema. The film has been praised by film crtics from
Variety to the LA Times and has been a festival favorite across the nation
and the globe winning audience awards at these festivals.

Here is the information:

THE GRACE LEE PROJECT
at FILM FORUM (Two Weeks only! Dec 14-27)
209 W. Houston St. (w. of 6th Ave.)
Screens Daily 1:15, 3:15, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00
Order tickets online www.filmforum.org (beginning Dec 7)

If you can pull together your friends, your family, sorority, church, club,
fraternity and other groups to come see the film you will be able to
accomplish three things:

1. Come out and have a good time seeing a good film
2. Support Asian American Cinema
3. Show the film industry that there is an audience for Asian American
Cinema - you are voting with your ticket purchase.

Who knows? Maybe you could be part of something that could excite across
the nation should other cities also decide to show the film.
This is your opportunity to make some noise.

For more info log on to www.gracelee.net

Below is an open letter from the director, GRACE LEE:

AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM DIRECTOR GRACE LEE -

Grace Lee wrote:

Dear Friends, Grace Lees, and Friends of Grace Lee(s),

Greetings! As many of you know, I made a film called THE GRACE LEE
PROJECT which opens theatrically at New York City's Film Forum from
December 14-27.

The film premiered earlier this year at the San Francisco Intl. Asian
American Film Festival to sold out houses, and has continued to collect great reviews on its festival run from SXSW to the Los Angeles and Pusan International Film Festivals and many others in between. Variety called it a "funny and complex meditation on identity and cultural expectations." And the Los Angeles Times described it as a "fascinating portrait, told with humor and insight."

I'm really excited to be working with our distributor Women Make
Movies on the release and am proud to premiere at the prestigious
Film Forum. But we need your help to make sure this film finds its
audience -- especially since performing well here will help us move
on to other cities. AND, we're opening on the same day as King
Kong! Yes, it's King Kong vs. Grace Lee. The battle lines are drawn.

I'm writing to ask you to SAVE THE DATES (December 14-27) and urge
you and everyone you know in the New York area to come out and
support the film. I guarantee that you will be entertained, that you
will get a fresh take on an identity crisis, and you will meet
characters you have never seen before. And they all share my
incredibly common Asian American name: Grace Lee.

I'll be in New York from Dec 7-19 to help promote the film, but in
the meantime, please help spread the word. Some of the ways you can
help:

1. Send an email to all your friends, newsgroups, organizations,
listservs, etc.
2. Link the Grace Lee Project banner to your blog/website (you can
download the html at www.gracelee.net)
3. Bring postcards to any events you attend.
4. Order tickets early from Film Forum and organize an outing with
friends. It's a perfect break from holiday shopping.

Posters and posters are available from Women Make Movies. If you'd
like to help distribute them at your school or business, please
contact Chris George at cgeorge@wmm.com or Michelle Coe at mcoe@wmm.com.

Finally, if you know any Grace Lees who will be in the New York area,
please let them know that they're invited to our opening and to get
in touch with me at grace@gracelee.net.

Anyway, here's the screening info. Thanks again for your support and
see you in New York in December!

Best wishes,

Grace Lee

THE GRACE LEE PROJECT
at FILM FORUM (Two Weeks only! Dec 14-27)
209 W. Houston St. (w. of 6th Ave.)
Screens Daily 1:15, 3:15, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00
Order tickets online www.filmforum.org (beginning Dec 7)

More info on the film at www.gracelee.net
Distributed by Women Make Movies www.wmm.com