American Revolutionary: Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs Canadian Premiere Directed by Grace Lee (in attendance) USA 2013, 82 mins Date/time: Tuesday November 12, 2013 at 7pm Location: Ryerson University, Image Arts Building, 122 Bond Street. Room 307 Grace Lee Boggs is a 98-year-old Chinese American writer, activist, and philosopher. The documentary carries us through Boggs’s lifelong involvement with many of the major American social movements of the last century, including labor and civil rights, Black Power, feminism, the oppression of Asian Americans and the issues facing the environment. Boggs is always dynamic, and has a strategic disposition that drives changes in her approach according to the world around her. Indeed, it’s this aspect of her character that drives the story forward. Angela Davis, Bill Moyers, Bill Ayers, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Danny Glover, Boggs’s late husband James and a host of Detroit comrades from three generations help shape this uniquely American story. As she wrestles with a Detroit in an ongoing state of transition, the inherent tension between violence and non-violence, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, the 1967 rebellions, and non-linear notions of time and history, Boggs emerges with a sensibility that is radical in its simplicity and clarity: revolution is not an act of aggression or merely a protest. Revolution, Boggs says, is about something deeper within the human experience — the ability to transform oneself, in order to transform the world. Grace Lee is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, whose feature film JANEANE FROM DES MOINES, which takes place during the 2012 presidential campaign, 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 that was called ridiculously entertaining by New York Magazin, broadcast on Sundance Channel and is distributed by Women Make Movies. Presented by the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival in partnership with Asian Canadian Labour Alliance, CAW Sam Gindin Chair for Social Justice and Democracy - Ryerson University, The School of Image Arts - Ryerson University, Boggs Centre, and Gendai reelasian/index.php/component/ohanah/american-revolutionary-the-evolution-of-grace-lee-boggs migrantdreams.ca
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