''The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir'' is a 1975 American

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...

directed by Shirley MacLaine and

Claudia Weill Claudia Weill is an American film director best known for her film '' Girlfriends'' (1978), starring Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, Bob Balaban and Eli Wallach, made independently and sold to Warner Brothers after multiple awards at Cannes ...

. It was nominated for an

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for Best Documentary Feature.

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The autobiography "Berkeley to Beijing" discusses the events surrounding the filming from a twelve-year-old girls perspective.
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