Look Away, Look Away

Directors: Patrick O'Connor
Run Time: 89 minutes
"Look Away, Look Away displays the slow and painful process that finally leads to change. It also contrasts how thoughtful and methodical the people pushing for a new flag were in relationship to those who were emotionally nostalgic about the Confederacy, rallied -- some with weapons around Confederate statues and monuments and were no match for people who were using reason to try changing minds and, eventually, hearts." 
-Bob Bloom, The Film Yap

Little White Lie (2014)

Director: Lacey Schwartz
Running Time: 65 min.

"Ms. Schwartz was an only child who grew up in the mostly white town of Woodstock, N.Y. Her parents, Peggy and Robert Schwartz, told her that she favored her father’s swarthy Sicilian grandfather. It was not until she went off to college that she learned the truth. . . . Before starting college, 'I was already questioning my whiteness because of what other people said and because I was aware that I looked different from my family,' she said in a recent interview. Then, based on the photograph accompanying her application, Georgetown University passed her name along to the black student association, which contacted her. . . . The university 'gave me permission' to explore a black identity, Ms. Schwartz said."
—Felicia R. Lee, New York Times (full review here)