Felicia (1965)

Directed by

Bob Dickson, Alan Gorg, Trevor Greenwood

Genre

documentary

Country

United States

Runtime

12 min

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A high school student in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles talks about her family, school, and plans for the future. The film captures her perspective before the Watts riots later that summer.

conversationalintimatecontemplativegroundedhopefulquiet

What happens

Felicia is a 1965 short documentary film directed by UCLA students Bob Dickson, Alan Gorg and Trevor Greenwood. It features an erudite black high school student, Felicia Bragg, discussing her family life, school and future in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The film was shot prior to the "Watts riots" which occurred in that neighborhood in August 1965. Felicia was selected into the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2014, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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