the ALLY workshop’s been busy…designing a new look (thanks will hyde!) to go with our new tagline (thanks elaine summers!). coming soon–our new trailer (thanks jason king!) will reveal the upcoming festival that will be our official World Premiere. Stay tuned!!!
Because most of our interviews were not in English, we had to translate and transcribe all our interviews before we left Tanzania. For 2 full years, this film existed only on paper, as we pieced our story together… I’m so glad my mother thought to snap a photo of this madness […]
It’s now official! I feel we did right by Pete by offering him a Producer credit on our film. It wasn’t so much a promotion as it was finding a title that did justice to what he so generously brings to the project. Future posts will tell the tale of our collaboration. But for now, […]
A Lot Like You is about how I translate the unexpected beauty and brutality of my father’s culture on Mt Kilimanjaro into my own personal legacy. It raises questions about what we inherit, and what we pass down, and reveals how bearing witness can break silences that have lasted lifetimes. (50 […]
sometimes when writing got too intense, i would shift gears and play around with images. the results would inevitably open up new and unexpected paths for me to explore…places i couldn’t reach through words alone. from this collage, i realized i wanted our poster design to combine images with words to reflect the idea that this film […]
As many of you know, we really struggled to come up with a title for our film. The journey from Worlds Apart to A Lot Like You reflects our own process of peeling back the layers to reveal the true story of our film. And in that time, we actually considered 50 different titles… Worlds […]
Mom and Dad’s water development project in our village of Mwika will be featured in an upcoming PBS documentary called Drops of Hope. They recently met with Emmy-Award winning filmmakers Kris Koenig and Anita Ingrao who were shooting a documentary that critically examines “volunteerism and service in Tanzania, and the efforts to establish permanent sources and […]
The undeniable gift of A Lot Like You is its power to ignite dialogue and inspire deep introspection. This film invites us all to reflect on the complexity of loving people through pain, secrets and differences. Over the past 8 years, we discovered a surprising paradox—the more personal, honest and […]
March 8th marks the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the achievements of women past, present and future. Hundreds of events occur not just on this day but throughout March to mark the economic, political and social accomplishments of women. In New York, there will be […]
A small-share farmers’ organization in Tanzania, MVIWATA, is taking a stand against domestic violence, sexual harassment, genital mutilation, women being deprived of food and water, forced into early marriage by rape. In Tanzania, 80 percent of rural people living in extreme poverty are women. Women farmers are subjected to acute social and economic exclusion […]