Kinowatt: Film and the power of change Curated by Maori Karmael Holmes and Sara Zia Ebrahimi A Lot Like You will be screening October 7, 8-10pm. Director will be in attendance. $8 general admission, $5 for students We’re proud to host this new film series featuring documentary and narrative films […]
Hey Seattle, Did you miss our screenings in January, May and June?? Well here’s your chance to see ALLY on the big screen, thanks to Local Sightings Film Festival at the NW Film Forum. So happy to have this opportunity to screen once again to our hometown crowd!! (Get Your ALLY Tickets Here: Wed. 10/5 […]
A Lot Like You has been invited to screen at the Montreal International Black Film Festival, whose aim it is to: …bring audiences the most beautiful and the most amazing new Black films, while creating a space to debate major cultural, social and socio-economic issues. The MIBFF wants to promote […]
We are SO grateful to have been invited to screen A Lot Like You, and deliver the closing keynote at the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence Annual Conference next week: Eli Kimaro will present at our conference this year – showing her film, A Lot Like You and talking about […]
I’m SO incredibly grateful to Wendy Elisheva Somerson for the depth she brings to this generous, complex, insightful article about our film!! A huge thank you to Wendy and Tikkun magazine for digging deep and taking this conversation to a whole new level… …What begins Kimaro’s journey through her family’s cultural […]
09/07/2011 Announcing new speaker! Eliaichi Kimaro: A Lot Like You We’re happy to announce our representation of filmmaker and gender-violence activist Eliaichi Kimaro. Her wonderful film, A Lot Like You, and the accompanying lecture A Lot Like You: Culture We Inherit and the Legacies We Choose, offer an inimitable look […]
Earlier this summer, my parents hosted a screening of our film at the Watering Hole in Moshi, Tanzania . All the funds raised went towards the girls’ dormitory construction project at Vunjo Secondary School in our village of Mwika. This seemed like a fitting project for us to support given […]
UNICEF just released a study that found that nearly 1 in 3 Tanzanian girls are sexually abused before the age of 18. The rate of sexual abuse for boys is approximately 1 in 7. From BBC News: UNICEF official Andy Brooks said the survey was the most comprehensive carried out on […]
Dad, Sia Mosha (Vunjo principal), Sister Florence, Cousin Dalton (Awonyisa’s son) Here’s mom’s account of the ALLY fundraising screening on July 7th at a bar in Moshi called The Watering Hole. Mom and I agreed that funds raised at this screening would help cover construction costs of a girls’ […]
When this film journey began, never could I have imagined that 7 years later, I would be in the East Wing of the White House, waiting to present President Obama with the DVD of my film, A Lot Like You. But there I was, sipping champagne with approximately 100 […]