FAMILY SECRET a film by Pola Rapaport
documentary 1 hour
mixed format: 16 mm film and digital video

REACHING THE AUDIENCE director Pola Rapaport, Marjorie O'Brien Rapaport, Pierre Radulescu-Banu, in Staten Island, house from 59 Sherman Avenue, 1998

The story of FAMILY SECRET arrived full turned into my life, opening up an unimagined intimate new relation in my family's existence. It is a story that could touch most families, as nearly everyone has had family secrets around which they have grown up, which have the potential to alter the status quo, and to change their lives forever.

FAMILY SECRET is a story with wide-ranging emotional and social impact, done in a dramatic and artistic style. It will be of particular interest to families of mixed race or religion, immigrants and their relatives, and individual viewers who have asked themselves what has been hidden from them as well as what they themselves may have been hiding from their loved ones all those years.