Growing Up Red
documentary short
19 minutes
2015
documentary short
19 minutes
2015
Recollections of a
woman who grew up during the Cultural Revolution in China.
This film is about my documentary partner's (George Fu) grandmother, who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution - a time period under the political leadership of Mao Ze Dong. We chose her as our subject in order to learn about what life was like for our grandparents' generation. Footage was shot during multiple trips to George's family residence in Chino, a suburban city in Southern California.
We wanted our story to be led by George's grandmother through her voice, her recollections, and personal records. It was important for us to focus on her subjective experience of the Cultural Revolution rather than creating a textbook dramatization of the period. The film goes back and forth between her homestaged opera performance and stories from her life living under Mao's politics. It is also supplemented by archival footage produced during the Cultural revolution.
Grand Prize Winner of the Adam Douglas Kamil Awards at UC San Diego (2015)
Co-directors, camera, and editors: George Fu and Emily Zheng
This film is about my documentary partner's (George Fu) grandmother, who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution - a time period under the political leadership of Mao Ze Dong. We chose her as our subject in order to learn about what life was like for our grandparents' generation. Footage was shot during multiple trips to George's family residence in Chino, a suburban city in Southern California.
We wanted our story to be led by George's grandmother through her voice, her recollections, and personal records. It was important for us to focus on her subjective experience of the Cultural Revolution rather than creating a textbook dramatization of the period. The film goes back and forth between her homestaged opera performance and stories from her life living under Mao's politics. It is also supplemented by archival footage produced during the Cultural revolution.
Grand Prize Winner of the Adam Douglas Kamil Awards at UC San Diego (2015)
Co-directors, camera, and editors: George Fu and Emily Zheng