Every Family Has Its Secrets: Lacey Schwartz Connects with Film Forward Audiences in TaiwanPosted in Articles, Media Archive, Passing, Religion on 2015-09-27 15:58Z by Steven |
Every Family Has Its Secrets: Lacey Schwartz Connects with Film Forward Audiences in Taiwan
Sundance Film Forward
2015-09-24
Lacey Schwartz, Director Little White Lie
This Sundance Film Forward trip to Taiwan marked the Asian Premiere of Little White Lie. It also was my first time ever in Asia. The things that people seemed to say I had to experience while there were the food and the shopping – I was told soup dumplings and night markets were mandatory. I learned that their passion fruit is addictive. What I didn’t have a sense of was how the audiences in Taiwan would respond to Little White Lie. I wondered if they would be confused by the racial identity dynamics. Would they think the film was revealing too much in a public manner? Would they relate to the struggle to come to terms with family secrets and denial? I had shown the film previously in countries that had much more diversity in their society such as Trinidad where the story seemed to strongly resonate. I wondered if the homogeneity of the people in Taiwan would make Little White Lie harder for them to connect to. The screenings showed that my concerns were unwarranted…
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