Tapawingo
An interracial couple's tumultuous relationship from 1960 to 2025. Their experience as parents to mixed-race daughters, cultural misfit and parental disapproval, the couple remain friends and here rev…
Tapawingo
An interracial couple's tumultuous relationship from 1960 to 2025. Their experience as parents to mixed-race daughters, cultural misfit and parental disapproval, the couple remain friends and here reveal the inside family's journey. This documentary 'Beginning to See You' is the saga of two racially different persons falling in love and making a life in racially discriminating 1960s America. Toma is born in Alabama to college educated Black parents while narrator Jan is a Jewish immigrant from Europe to 1940s anti-Semitic America. From literally a magnetic youthful attraction in a New York dance class, to two daughters and a successful fashion business together, they face both disapproval and admiration for their adventurous spirits. The challenge of differing personal goals breaks up the family but shared feelings sustains their friendship through forty years. Now sixty-five years later, they all reflect on the intervening years that flashes by with a deeper understanding of each others' character and history. This pioneering interracial relationship and the eloquence of this elderly's pair's penetrating insights is a unique interior view of race and relationships in New York over half a century. —Jan Gero
Tapawingo
Comedy
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An interracial couple's tumultuous relationship from 1960 to 2025. Their experience as parents to mixed-race daughters, cultural misfit and parental disapproval, the couple remain friends and here reveal the inside family's journey. This documentary 'Beginning to See You' is the saga of two racially different persons falling in love and making a life in racially discriminating 1960s America.
Toma is born in Alabama to college educated Black parents while narrator Jan is a Jewish immigrant from Europe to 1940s anti-Semitic America. From literally a magnetic youthful attraction in a New York dance class, to two daughters and a successful fashion business together, they face both disapproval and admiration for their adventurous spirits. The challenge of differing personal goals breaks up the family but shared feelings sustains their friendship through forty years.
Now sixty-five years later, they all reflect on the intervening years that flashes by with a deeper understanding of each others' character and history. This pioneering interracial relationship and the eloquence of this elderly's pair's penetrating insights is a unique interior view of race and relationships in New York over half a century. —Jan Gero.