In this article for CBC, Lisa recounts her own experience growing up mixed- race and why she decided to make a documentary about identity and belonging:
I was the last student to the map. I added my yellow to Britain and Canada easily enough. Then on to India, which my mom had shown me on a map before, then Portugal — my teacher guided my hand; she had been there on vacation.
My last yellow dot stuck to the tip of my index finger as I tried to find Armenia. I couldn’t. My teacher couldn’t. My classmates had no idea. One Scottish-Irish boy watched me, perplexed, before finally asking, “What’s an Armenia?”
I didn’t know.
To read the full article visit: https://www.cbc.ca/shortdocs/blog/a-case-of-too-many-identities-growing-up-mixed-race-meant-i-didnt-know-wher