Bronwen Safai - Associate Producer

After growing up in rural, ‘outback’ Australia, I completed a business degree in marketing. In my last year of high school, a teacher told our class, “You are all racist because you have had no experience with other cultures other than your own.” Not totally true, I thought. In the middle of Australia, my parents exposed me to cultures, nature and beauty from around the world through books, inviting visitors to our farm, and endless documentaries and movies. This upbringing helped in my transition to living in America and my cross cultural marriage (both racial and religious). I am passionate about this project because I can see that my kids’ friends are not having the same type of open upbringing as I enjoyed and try to share with my kids. In the 1970s, my parents made what limited information we had personal through stories and guests. It’s my hope that this documentary will make a similar type of personal connection with our viewers today.