A Lot Like You makes festival director Karen Willis’ Top 3 list for must-see films at the upcoming San Diego Black Film Festival…

The huge choices at the festival are all appealing. Ask to pick three must-sees, Willis suggested Dog Jack, in which a Pennsylvania slave boy, accompanied by his dog and the Pennsylvania 102 in an attempt to free his mother and sister from slavery; Holding Back the Dream, the aforementioned documentation of black life in Hawaii from a freed slave to Obama; also, A Lot Like You, where a first-generation filmmaker retraces her roots, sending her to Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Check out Tony Cooper’s article in San Diego.com …and just keep reading to the end.  🙂