Secret Daughter

I loved the way June Cross tells such a personal and intimate story in a very genuine and real way. This story explores the history of her family, racism and racial divisions, the relationship between the filmmaker and her mother, and much more. It takes courage to tell such private story and to make it so public and visible. I found the documentary very ‘unconventional’ especially in the part where she finds out that the entire registration of the interview of her mom didn’t work. I liked the part where she is re-interviewing her by phone and she ‘struggles’ to put the microphone on the phone.
It was interesting for me to see the way in which she makes the audience aware of the technical procedures and difficulties that she had to go through while making this documentary and, that in different ways, all filmmakers have to go through.