MFAH Film Houston Premieres: Off the Menu: Asian America
- When
- December 04, 2015
- Where
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Museum of Fine Arts Houston – Brown Auditorium
1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston,TX 77006 - Cost
- $2 - $1001
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents another in its Houston Premieres series. Enjoy these critically acclaimed, award-winning international films as they make their Houston debut!
Off the Menu: Asian America
Directed by Grace Lee
2015, USA, 56 minutes
In person: director Grace Lee, accompanied by collaborators and Houstonians featured in the film.
Off the Menu celebrates how family, tradition, faith, and geography shape our relationship to food.
Traveling across the United States, the documentary delves into a wealth of stories, traditions, and unexpected characters that help nourish America as a nation of immigrants.
The Houston scenes spotlight Glen Gondo, “The King of Sushi,” and Carol and Gary Chiu from the Banyan Foods tofu empire.
About the filmmaker
Grace Lee directed the feature film Janeane from Des Moines, which takes place during the 2012 presidential campaign and premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.
Prior to that, she wrote and directed American Zombie, which premiered at Slamdance and SXSW. She also produced and directed The Grace Lee Project, a feature documentary called “ridiculously entertaining” by New York Magazine and shown on the Sundance Channel.
Lee received her MFA 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, and the PPP Pusan Prize.
Other documentary credits include Best of the Wurst, which is permanently featured at the Currywurst Museum in Berlin.
Lee has taught production courses at UCLA Film School, UC-Irvine Department of Studio Art, and Objectifs Film and Photography Center in Singapore; has appeared on panels and given guest lectures; and is currently developing other fiction and documentary work.
Generous financial assistance provided by the Houston Film Commission. Community partner: Houston’s Asian Chamber of Commerce.
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