Bay Area director probes family secrets in ‘Chinese Couplets’
Bay Area director probes family secrets in ‘Chinese Couplets’
Bay Area filmmaker Felicia Lowe grew up in Oakland’s Chinatown, but her journey to understand her mother would extend far beyond the walls of their home and to the far reaches of the globe.
“Chinese Couplets” is not only that poignant story, but also that of Lowe’s grandmother and her daughter, and how four generations of women were shaped in part by the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese from immigrating to the United States for more than 60 years.
Lowe will present the film in person at the Roxie (where she’ll be interviewed onstage by Ben Fong-Torres) on Saturday, May 7, and at the New Parkway in Oakland on Sunday, May 8.