Every weekend in the Fall and Winter of 2018, I filmed hours upon hours of interviews with my parents in their separate homes, asking them questions about their upbringings with the goal of learning what formed their morals and approaches to caregiving, what sculpted their concepts of love. From our conversations, I learned about a lot of their unresolved childhood traumas and from that I was able to hold my own hand to form an understanding and forgiveness for the mistakes made in my and my sister's upbringings.
I promise to make a full film with those 40 hours of interviews at some point in the future, but for now here's the film I made as a result of this process and forgiveness. It didn't happen on purpose, but I realized after finishing my rough draft that I seemed to be trying to bring my family back together in the only way possible which was in the form of a film.
If you decide to make a similar film and share it publicly, please send me info for how I can see and support it!
Event link: docnyc.net/film/doc-nyc-u-cuny-brooklyn-college/
