The Offering is a Canadian romantic drama film, directed by David Secter and released in 1966.
[1] One of the first Canadian films ever to depict an interracial relationship, the film portrays a romance between Mei-Lin (Kee Faun), a dancer with a touring Peking opera company, and Gordon (Ratch Wallace), a stagehand at the theatre in Toronto where the troupe is performing.
[2] Philip Givens, the real-life mayor of Toronto at the time the film was made, appears in the film as himself;[3] the cast also includes Ellen Yamasaki and Marvin Goldhar.
The film was shot in part at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre.
[5] Soon after the film's release, Secter abandoned most of his new projects and moved to New York City, where he joined a bohemian artists' commune and worked as a theatre director, and did not direct another film until the low-budget sex comedy Getting Together in 1976.