12/8/2011 breakfast at monks
December 8, 2011delivery chicken just down the way
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12/8/11 ~ 2am
Gale force winds met us as we approached the airport. You could literally hear and feel the plane bending. That was by far the bumpiest landing I’ve had in a long while. Diarah N’Daw-Spech, the festival director, picked me up at the airport. It was well after midnight! On the drive to the […]
12/7/2011 SEA -> EWR
December 7, 2011a friend suggested that i keep a running journal of this trip. and thanks to my new smartphone that arrived last night, i’m going to see how this goes… 2:45~waiting on the plane, which has been delayed by a few hours. not so bad on this end, as […]
See you next week, New York!
November 27, 2011Thanks to the African Diaspora Film Festival (ADFF), we’ll be screening A Lot Like You at the Schomburg Center in Harlem Thursday, December 8th @ 8:30pm. Our film will be featured as part of “Women Indies Night” and will be screening together with The Dream Team. Please join us for this […]
Educators/Non-Profits hold the key to our future
November 22, 2011So you’ve made a film. Congrats!! That’s it then. You’re done, right? Time to move on to the next project… Well, yes — thanks to all the people who helped you realize your vision, your film is now complete. But you soon discover that all the collective time and energy that went into finishing […]
global views
November 14, 2011I don’t know about you, but I’m an absolute Sucker for site stats! It’s simply amazing to see how far and fast information can spread. Check out all the countries where our trailer’s been viewed since we uploaded it this summer…
from Assoc. Professor Nancy Shore (UNE School of Social Work)
November 12, 2011This summer I had the opportunity to watch A Lot Like You as part of the Seattle International Film Festival. Amazing! The film raised so many important questions and provided such critical insight into how interconnected our experiences of race, class, gender, trauma and sexuality can be in forming our cultural […]
expectations vs reality
November 10, 2011In 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, 2011A 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 […]
News from the Vashon Theatre
November 7, 2011This Thursday, the theatre hosts a benefit screening of A LOT LIKE YOU with proceeds going to the DoVE Project, the island aid group for domestic violence survivors. Director Eli Kimaro’s documentary uses a wealth of island talent with familiar names, but the story at the heart of her film […]