Little White Lie
2014- 2013 • Feature Film • ReleasedDocumentaryLacey Schwartz grew up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity - despite questions from those around her about how a white girl could have such dark skin. She believed her family's explanation that she inherited her coloring from her Sicilian grandfather, but when her parents abruptly split, her gut told her something different. At 18, she confronted her mother and learned that her biological father was not the man who raised her, he was a black man named Rodney with whom her mother had had an affair. Afraid of losing her relationship with her parents, Lacey doesn't acknowledge her newly discovered black identity with her white family. But when her biological father dies shortly before Lacey's 30th birthday, the family secret can stay hidden no longer. After the funeral, Lacey begins a quest to reconcile the hidden pieces of her life and heal her relationship with the only father she ever knew.
Lacey Schwartz grew up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity - despite questions from those around her about how a white girl could have such dark skin. She believed her family's explanation that she inherited her coloring from her Sicilian grandfather, but when her parents abruptly split, her gut told her something different. At 18, she confronted her mother and learned that her biological father was not the man who raised her, he was a black man named Rodney with whom her mother had had an affair. Afraid of losing her relationship with her parents, Lacey doesn't acknowledge her newly discovered black identity with her white family. But when her biological father dies shortly before Lacey's 30th birthday, the family secret can stay hidden no longer. After the funeral, Lacey begins a quest to reconcile the hidden pieces of her life and heal her relationship with the only father she ever knew.
