One Tree Three Lives

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2012 · 98 min · Documentary · TMDB 9.0/10

Overview

One Tree Three Lives, an intimate film on the novelist Hualing Nieh Engle, who has been a major influence on generations of writers in the Chinese Diaspora, and beyond. The director has known the author and her family since the Seventies. The film reveals a woman of unusual charisma, integrity and determination, and a person in continual exile. She is the author of 24 books. She also co-founded the International Writing Program in Iowa, USA, with her now deceased husband, the poet Paul Engle. One Tree Three Lives is also their love story.

Directed by Angie Chen

Cast

• Hualing Nieh Engle — Self
• Kenneth Pai Hsien-Yung — Self
• Lin Hwai-min — Self