How many times today have you encountered a woman named Grace Lee? One? Two? Five? A BILLION? It's a pretty common name, you know. But it's more than just a common name; a Los Angeles-based film maked named (by unbelievable coincidence) Grace Lee started noticing that everyone who knows a GL seems to know the SAME GL: nice, gentle, quiet, small, intelligent. GL the Filmmaker started to wonder: why is every Grace Lee so idealized? And more importantly, she wonders, "what went wrong with me?" So she sets out to meet as many of her namesakes as possible, and to find out who Grace Lee really is. The result: Grace Lee the Filmmaker has taken might've been a breezy joke about her name's ubiquity and made a nice, gentle, intelligent, This-American-Life-ish story about the things that make people the same, and the things that set them apart.

But first: a short documentary about a nice, gentle, quiet, small, intelligent Asian woman who could probably shoot you. Also, John Wayne, Katherine Hepburn, and "Thoroughly Modern Millie."