Memory

When I was Young

The Hanging of David Dodd – A Boy Martyr of the Confederacy or a Sacrifice to Slavery?

Forty Miles Below Hope

Alice Liu’s Adventures in America

HuiXia Lu selected filmography

Alice Liu’s Adventures in America

— 98 minutes long documentary film

Director, Producer, Editor, Videographer, Sound

Follows a six-year-old Alice Liu and her parents, who are from China, through a typical day in inner city Philadelphia as Alice tries to negotiate the hurdles of racial and cultural difference. The film subtly explores topics such as individual vs. national identity; and a child’s struggle to grasp the rules of the adult world.

“As Alice Liu struggles, her strength shows a theme of American Life”
— the Philadelphia Inquirer

Columbia University School of Social Work screening 2015

Kodak Emerging Filmmakers Showcase Cannes International Film Festival

Finalist, Student Academy Awards in the United States

First Prize, NextFrame International Film & Video Festival

Finalist, ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Dore Schary Awards

Funded & Broadcast by WYBE-TV 35 (PBS)

Forty Miles Below Hope

An Independent’s Run for Governor

Rod Bryan, the first independent candidate for Governor of Arkansas since 1940, ran a losing race in the 21st Century. He has been into environmental issues and
drove a 1986 Mercedes fueled by scrap oil from restaurant kitchens. Rod grew up in Bradley, “forty miles below Hope, Bill Clinton’s hometown” as he puts it.

This cinema verite documents how an quixotic underdog challenges a political system that discourages and stifles alternative voices. In a parallel structure, it is also an existential study of the economy and culture in the South through Rod’s campaign trail.

“… a poetic vérité documentary…

It’s a wonderfully evocative and often funny portrait of Bryan… as well as our systemic problems with hearing novel,
sensible voices above the circus throb of high-powered modern political campaigns. It’s social anthropology—and a second chance to hear some original ideas…”

— Arkansas Democratic Gazette

Screenings: Rowan University in New Jersey 2013, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival 2011, Rock Film Festival 2011, University of Arkansas in Little Rock 2011, Communication University of China 201, Qinghua University in Beijing 2011, William J. Clinton Presidential Library 2010, UFVA Conference 2010.

Funded by Fred Darragh Foundation 2010, Research Council of University of Central Arkansas

The Hanging of David Dodd

A Boy Martyr of the Confederacy or a Sacrifice to Slavery

– HD, 60 minutes, docudrama

Director, Producer, Cinematographer, co-Editor

David Dodd, a seventeen-year-old Confederate spy, was hanged for treason during American Civil War. 150 years later, how is he remembered and how is the Civil War commemorated, while racial issues still haunt the United States?

Broadcast at AETN Arkansas Educational Television Network （PBS）2016

Screening at MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History 2016, Little Rock Film Festival, June 2015

Sponsored by Arkansas Weekend Theatre 2011-2015