K-TOWN'92 explores the untold stories of the L.A. Riots

Grace Lee's interactive documentary website and short film reveals new insights into the 1992 unrest.



K-TOWN'92 is an interactive documentary website and short film by Peabody Award winning filmmaker Grace Lee that reveals new insights into the 1992 Los Angeles riots through untold stories of diverse Angelenos in LA's ionic Koreatown, then and now. These are the stories that the media didn't know or didn't bother to tell. You can view K-TOWN'92 as a free-standing interactive documentary website.

A 15-minute companion documentary short, K-TOWN'92 Reporters, explores media coverage at the city's paper of record during the 1992 civil unrest. At that time, Hector Tobar, Tammerlin Drummond, and John Lee reported from the field for the Los Angeles Times. Twenty-five years later, they revisit their stories and impressions of those tumultuous events, and reflect on the media coverage they helped create.

K-TOWN'92 Reporters will air nationally on the WORLD Channel in May. You can also view it online here:

They Call Us Bruce - Episode 7: They Call Us Justin Chon and Grace lee

Jeff Yang and Phil Yu present an unfiltered conversation about what's happening in Asian America.



What's up, podcast listeners? We've got another episode of our podcast They Call Us Bruce. Each week, my good friend, writer/columnist Jeff Yang and I host an unfiltered conversation about what's happening in Asian America, with a strong focus on media, entertainment and popular culture.

This week, "live" from the 33rd Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, we commemorated the 25th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, with guests Justin Chon, star/writer/director of Gook, and Grace Lee, director of the interactive documentary K-TOWN'92.

'Off the Menu: Asian America' available for online streaming

You can watch Grace Lee's food documentary on PBS.org until January 5.



The feature documentary Off the Menu: Asian America, produced by CAAM and KQED, is a road trip to the kitchens, factories, temples and farms of Asian Pacific America that explores how our relationship to food reflects our evolving communities. From Texas to New York and from Wisconsin to Hawaii, award-winning filmmaker Grace Lee takes audiences on a journey using our obsession with food as a launching point to delve into a wealth of stories, traditions, and unexpected characters that help nourish this nation of immigrants.

This is not your typical food travelogue. If you missed the public television broadcast of Off the Menu: Asian America, the film is currently available for streaming in its entirety on PBS.org until January 5.

Check it out:

Grace Lee's 'Off The Menu: Asian America' - L.A. Premiere

Sunday, October 25 at the Japanese American National Museum


Grace Lee's 'Off The Menu: Asian America'
If you're in Los Angeles, Visual Communications and the Japanese American National Museum invite to the L.A. premiere of Off The Menu: Asian America. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Grace Lee, the documentary is an exploration of food in changing communities, families traditions and faiths.

The documentary follows Grace as she travels around the country, from Houston to New York's Lower East Side, and from Oak Creek, Wisconsin to Oahu, seeking stories that reflect an evolving Asian Pacific America and the role food plays in people's lives. This is not your average food travelogue.

It's happening Sunday, October 25 at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. The evening will also feature a post-screening conversation, moderated by writer and sociologist Oliver Wang, with folks from the city's culinary scene, including Chef Minh Pham of Porridge+Puffs, food writer Christine Chiao, scholar Karen Tongson, and Youa Yang of Yang Farms.

Here are some more details about the screening:

Watch 'American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs' for free online

POV is streaming Grace Lee's award-winning documentary free online for the next month.



Yesterday, we lost a giant. Legendary Detroit activist, author and philosopher Grace Lee Boggs passed away at the age of 100. That's a hundred years of kicking ass and inspiring generations of activists in the struggles for civil rights, labor, feminism, environmental justice and other causes. Grace Lee Boggs is the truth.

Grace Lee Boggs, Advocate for Many Causes for 7 Decades, Dies at 100

Grace Lee Boggs' extraordinary, inspirational story is told in the award-winning feature documentary American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, directed by Grace Lee (no relation), which aired on PBS in 2014. In observance of her passing, POV has put the film on free streaming for the next month.

Watch it here:

'American Revolutionary' opens Friday in Los Angeles

June 20-26 at the Laemmle Pasadena Playhouse 7



Good people of Los Angeles! Want to see an awesome documentary and help celebrate legendary activist Grace Lee Boggs' 99th birthday? American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, directed by Grace Lee, kicks off a theatrical run this Friday, June 20 at the Laemmle Pasadena Playhouse 7.

Twelve years in the making, the film is a moving, inspirational portrait of an incredible American life -- she really does turn 99 at the end of this month -- traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century. Watch this movie, open your minds, and learn a few things about everything.

Here's the trailer again:

'American Revolutionary' now playing in New York City

One-week theatrical run March 21-27 at AMC Loews 19th St. East 6



If you're in New York City, make sure you take some time out to catch this amazing film... American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs is now playing a one-week theatrical run at AMC Loewes 19th St. East 6, now through March 27. Directed Grace Lee, the documtary is an illuminating portrait of legendary 98-year-old philosopher and activist Grace Lee Boggs. Here's the trailer:

Detroit screening of American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, June 29

If you're in the Detroit area this weekend, don't miss a special free public screening of Grace Lee's feature documentary American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs.

Fresh from its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award, the film comes home in honor of the legendary writer/activist/philosopher's 98th birthday. It's happening Saturday, June 29 at the Detroit Film Theater. Here are some more details about the screening: