Full Description
What happened when you reveal the truth about the people you love? Bay Area filmmaker Heidi Schmidt Emberling confronts her German Lutheran father and American Jewish mother about the devastating secrets and painful silence about the past. As she struggles to reconcile her dual identity as both a German and a Jew she discovers a complex family legacy, shaped by war, courage, prejudice and fear.
Filmmaker Bio(s)
Heidi Schmidt Emberling is a freelance producer and editor working in television, commercials, news, corporate, and documentary formats. She produced, directed, and edited Spirit of the Dawn, about Native American education, which is currently in educational distribution through New Day Films (www.newday.com). She also produced and directed two television magazine pieces: Forgotten Children, about Guatemalan street kids, and Mystery Disease, about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She received a 2000 Emmy nomination for editing a documentary for KRON-TV: San Francisco: Birth of a City, narrated by Peter Coyote, which covered the gold rush in 1850 through the turn of the century. She also edited an independent half-hour documentary, Hepatitis C: A Viral Mystery with producer Terry L. Strauss and a series of short documentaries for the environmental series Green Means, for KQED, San Francisco's public television station.
