A Lot Like You

A Film by Eliaichi Kimaro

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TEDxSeattle – Why the World Needs Your Story

January 24, 2017

I’m excited to share that the video of my TEDxSeattle talk is FINALLY live!!! When I started working on this talk in July, I couldn’t have imagined how vulnerable I would feel, delivering what now seems like a timely counter narrative to a packed McCaw Hall, just 2 weeks after […]

ALLY Review in Bitch Magazine (Spring 2012 issue)

February 29, 2012

A Lot Like You Director: Eliaichi Kimaro The documentary A Lot Like You begins with an image of the filmmaker Eliaichi Kimaro’s daughter, Lucy, with Kimaro wondering in voiceover how she will answer the inevitable question of mixed-race children: “What am I, Mama?” A viewer might expect that such a […]

Official Selection of Cleveland International Film Festival

February 23, 2012

A Lot Like You will be screening on March 28, 29, and 30th as part of Cleveland International Film Festival. (tickets go on sale 3/9) As we mentioned earlier, thanks to CIFF being the sole recipient of a grant from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, they are […]

2/21 Moshi Fundraising Screening (Tanzania)

(email from mom…) Hello Eli, Last night, Moshi folks turned up in droves to see your movie, surprising everyone, even to those who organized the event. There was a gang of 20 that turned up from our neighbor village of Marangu. They rented a car to come. Obviously the word had […]

“A Lot Like You” article in the Citizen newspaper in Tanzania today

February 4, 2012

* The Citizen reposted Tyrone Beason’s article, Seattle filmmaker finds herself in her Tanzanian family which originally appeared in the Seattle Times (Jan. 29, 2012). this morning’s email from Mama:  Hello Eli, Mr. Shah congratulated me on the feature article in The Citizen* even before we had gotten our newspaper. So, Baba […]

fabulous article in the Seattle Times

January 29, 2012

our feature in the Seattle Times hits newsstands today, and we couldn’t be more grateful for this beautifully written, in-depth article from Tyrone Beason. if you’re viewing it online, be sure to scroll through the pictures. and if you happen to be in Seattle…might we say, it’s definitely worth seeing this layout […]

taking this show on the road!

January 26, 2012

We’re so excited to announce that A Lot Like You is an official selection of the Africa World Documentary Film Festival.  As part of this traveling festival, our film might be screening in the following cities/countries in the coming months: Yaoundé, Cameroon Birmingham, Alabama St.Louis, Missouri Cave Hill, Barbados Lawrence, […]

expectations vs reality

November 10, 2011

In Dec 2009, I talked with Susan McCabe (Voice of Vashon) about the new direction our film was taking.  In this clip, we consider the gap between the film I set out to make vs. what I discovered while filming in Tanzania… A Lot Like You is playing 8pm tonight […]

Vashon Beachcomber – Doc lifts veil on generation of abuse…

November 9, 2011

  A documentary lifts a veil on a generation of abuse By LESLIE BROWN Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber Editor Nov 09 2011 From left, Eric Frith, Pete Droge and Eliaichi Kimaro in Frith’s studio on the west side of Vashon, where the three of them spent a lot of hours producing […]

indieWIRE previews ALLY’s NY screening

November 2, 2011

indieWIRE’s blog, Shadow and Act, previewed A Lot Like You for its upcoming screening at the African Diaspora International Film Festival in New York on Thursday 12/8. If you’re in town, I will also be speaking on a panel about “Monetizing Independent Cinema” on Saturday 12/10 at 2pm at Columbia University (Teacher’s College). […]

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