Grace/Angela
Both documentaries capture two filmmakers on the road to search for something. In The Grace Lee Project she wanted to understand the stereotype for Grace Lee's as well as find anyone who broke the predetermined personality and behavior of a Grace Lee. In Searching for Angela Shelton she found similarities almost on accident between all of the Angela Shelton's in the country. In this specific documentary the road was used as a healing device whereas in The Grace Lee Project, you hardly notice the road at all. The goal is more about listening to the different women's stories. It is more about seeing and celebrating the differences of their lives, yet finding similar characteristics among them. The Grace Lee Project is definitely more light-hearted and less serious than Angela's documentary. For example even when discussing the Grace Lee who attempted to burn her high school down, funny cartoons are added to the screen. In The Grace Lee Project it is more so understood that she traveled to the different Grace Lee's and it is spoken about that no matter where in the world one is, there usually will be a Grace Lee that someone knows.
In Searching for Angela Shelton the women she speaks to are both Caucasian and African-American. Though she only interviews women, their conversations involve men. In The Grace Lee Project she also targets women, and it is focused on Asian-American women. Also, she interviews men in terms of those that have known a Grace Lee or what they think of when asked to describe and Asian female.