To Tell the Truth: Alumna’s new film about family secrets to show at Boston film festival (video) |
To Tell the Truth: Alumna’s new film about family secrets to show at Boston film festival (video)
Harvard Law Today
Alumni Focus
2014-11-12
Lewis Rice
Lacey Schwartz ’03 will return to Cambridge this weekend to speak about her new documentary “Little White Lie,” showing Saturday Nov. 15 and 17 as part of the Boston Jewish Film Festival. The film traces her personal story of being raised as a white Jewish girl in Woodstock, N.Y., only to find out as a young adult that her biological father was an African-American man with whom her mother had an affair (a family friend who died nearly ten years ago). In an interview with Harvard Law Today, she spoke about family secrets, the universal appeal of her story, and the power of film to reveal truths—including at Harvard Law School…
Read the entire interview here.
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