A Lot Like You

A Film by Eliaichi Kimaro

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Official Selection of Sarasota Film Festival/Through Women’s Eyes Film Festival

March 20, 2012

We’re excited to announce that A Lot Like You is an Official Selection of Sarasota Film Festival and Through Women’s Eyes Film Festival! The 13th annual presentation of Through Women’s Eyes will feature independent documentaries, narratives, and short films by directors that increase awareness of the lives of women throughout […]

While in Cleveland…

March 19, 2012

Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) is doing their part to keep me busy while I’m in town.  And for these many opportunties to engage directly our audience, fellow filmmakers, and community members, I am so grateful!! So…here is a quick rundown of events: A Lot Like You‘s CIFF screenings will be sponsored […]

Confessions of a SFIAAFF Juror

March 17, 2012

SFIAAFF Doc Competition Juror, Brian Hu, offers a behind-the-scenes look at what it means to serve on a festival jury.   As someone who’s hoping to be summoned for Jury Duty one day, I appreciate this glimpse into the inner-workings of their decision making process, and his reflections on some of […]

A Lot Like You Wins Best Documentary at 30th SFIAAFF

March 15, 2012

Just back from Closing Night at San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, and am delighted to share the news that A Lot Like You was honored with the CAAM/SFIAAFF 2012 Best Documentary Award! The 10 films included in SFIAAFF’s Doc Competition are truly phenomenal–powerful subject matter, compelling stories, beautifully told.  So I am […]

People Everywhere are “A Lot Like You”

March 14, 2012

I had the great pleasure of watching an engaging documentary, ‘A Lot Like You’, over the weekend at the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival. The aspect of the film that resonated most with me personally was the way it approached cultural identity. It touched on so many important cross-cultural […]

Art With Impact review

March 13, 2012

‘A Lot Like You’ Film Review Tue, 03/13/2012 – 12:28pm | by ericroache When reviewing a film, one of the key measures of quality to us here at Art With Impact is the ability of the film to inspire action in the viewer. By that standard, as well as any […]

Beautiful review in SFIAAFF’s official blog…

March 7, 2012

By Ravi Chandra, M.D. Memoirs of a Superfan, Volume 7.2: CAAMsanity! A LOT LIKE YOU … is powerful and heart-warming, telling several stories at once, and all of them well: the story of her Tanzanian father’s leaving his Chagga tribal roots, coming to America and marrying her Korean mother; a story […]

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 […]

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