Join the UCLA Asia Pacific Center for a film screening of Felicia Lowe’s documentary, “Chinese Couplets,” from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Friday, May 19, in the Charles E. Young Research Library presentation room.
Part memoir, part history, part investigation, Lowe’s search for answers about her mother’s emigration to America during the Chinese Exclusion era reveals the often painful price paid by immigrants who abandoned their personal identity and experienced the burden of inter-generational strife between immigrants and their American-born children.
Lowe is an award-winning independent television producer, director and writer with more than 35 years of production experience. Her latest film “Chinese Couplets” is gaining rave reviews as it begins circulating in film festivals and community screenings. Lowe received an EMMY for Best Cultural Documentary for “Chinatown: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco.” The lively hourlong piece on the history of San Francisco’s oldest neighborhood has been broadcast numerous times on PBS.
Lowe’s innovative works have screened in film festivals, museums and are used in classrooms across the country. Prior to her documentary work, Lowe worked in children’s television and broadcast journalism. She has also taught film production at San Francisco State University and Stanford University. A descendant of Angel Island detainees, she has been actively involved in the preservation of the Angel Island Immigration Station.
The film screening is free and open to the public.
