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RSVPs requested: re-presentmedia.orgLacey Schwartz grew up in a typical middle-class Jewish household with loving parents and a strong sense of her identity. She believes her family’s explanation of having a Sicilian grandfather until she discovers that her biological father is a black man with whom her mother had an affair.
This film explores what defines our identity, our family of origin, or the family that raises us.
Dialogue with Director Lacey Schwartz following the film.
Lacey Schwartz is the CEO of Truth Aid, which produces inspiring and empowering multi-media content to affect social change, and the Director of Outreach North America for Be’chol Lashon, which works on issues of racial, ethnic and cultural diversity in the Jewish community. She is a filmmaker and outreach and community strategist who has worked with a variety of companies and organizations, including MTV, BET, Be’chol Lashon, NASCAR and @radical.media. She also Executive Produced the narrative film DIFRET which won audience awards at the 2014 Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals. She produced the web series The Loving Generation (2018) interviewing black-white couples since the 1967 Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia which overturned all laws banning interracial marriage.