Filmmakers in Focus – Chinese Couplets with Felicia Lowe
1100 E Street
San Rafael
To honor Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage month, we’ll be showing Chinese Couplets a film by local filmmaker Felicia Lowe of Lowdown Productions. Part memoir, part history, part investigation, Chinese Couplets spans two centuries, three countries and four generations of women in this intimate story that reveals the impact of American’s Chinese Exclusion Acts on filmmaker Felicia Lowe’s family. Lowe offers a nuanced, engaging approach to the debate that details the long-term, multi-generational effects of ethnically motivated immigration policies while imparting a cautionary tale of living with cultural pluralism in the 21st century.
Discussion with the filmmaker will follow the screening.
Felicia Lowe is an award-winning media producer, director, and writer with 50 years of production experience. Her documentaries: Chinese Couplets, Carved in Silence, Chinatown and China: Land of My Father reveal the unique experiences of Chinese in America while underscoring our common humanity. All have been broadcast on PBS and used in classrooms across the country. She also led the creative team that produced the videos for Sacramento’s California Museum exhibit, Gold Mountain: Chinese Californian Stories. A past board president of the Angel Island Immigration Foundation and descendant of Angel Island detainees, she is gratified to have played a role in the preservation and restoration of this important National Historic Landmark.