The Droge & Summers Blend song “Two of the Lucky Ones” — that was featured in Zombieland, and appears (in a modified version) in ALLY — has just been nominated for an Independent Music Award. Huge Congrats to Pete & Elaine!!!
Lana Bandoim highlights A Lot Like You at this year’s San Diego Black Film Festival… The San Diego Black Film Festival had a full schedule of movies. One of the most interesting documentary features was “A Lot Like You.” This film has not been released, but we were able to […]
Hey PacNW folks! Our musicman, Pete Droge, will be featured on Evening Magazine tonight (KING5 @ 7pm) talking about the art of marrying music to picture. Set your DVR’s, and keep your ears peeled for mention of A Lot Like You… 🙂 You can click here to check out the piece.
This Sunday, February 6 is the UN Sanctioned International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation. On February 6, 2003, Stella Obasanjo, the First Lady of Nigeria, officially declared “Zero Tolerance to FGM” in African during a conference organized by the InterAfrican Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health […]
We were so very grateful to be heading towards sun, surf, and sand… To see more pics, check out our San Diego slideshow…
SOOOOO…in a rather unexpected turn of events, san diego black film festival ended up screening an older rough cut of our film — the May 2010 cut we showed at EMP last year. didn’t see that one coming! despite the challenges, pete, eric and i had a phenomenal time in […]
Jake Fawcett ruminates on the themes in A Lot Like You in his post on Can You Relate, a blog about violence and relationships… Jake heads up the Fatality Review project at the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Fatality Review convenes community groups to examine events leading up to domestic violence related […]
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 […]
Eliaichi Kimaro’s Hard Truths by Lindy West A LOT LIKE YOU Not smiling. Yet. “Let us speak the truth,” says the man, smiling at his middle-aged siblings as they sit discussing chilhood on a sheltered porch in Tanzanian. “We are not the disciples of Jesus Christ. We are really wicked and […]
Over the lifespan of this project, I’ve struggled repeatedly with how to answer the question, “So… what’s your film about?” My pitch was so far from snappy, and sorely lacking in what my friend Danica would refer to as RAZZamaTAZZ! But as this film makes its way out into the world, I’m starting to understand its […]