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Asian American Filmmaking 2000–2009

Barrier Device

27m

Directed by Grace Lee • 2002 • United States
Starring Sandra Oh, Suzy Nakamura, Melinda Peterson

A researcher (Sandra Oh) for a female condom study discovers that one of her subjects (Suzy Nakamura) is dating her ex in Grace Lee’s Student Academy Award–winning short.

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