Last month, I was invited to lead a KUOW RadioActive youth media workshop for advanced producers on exploring identity through story. RadioActive supports young people’s growth as media makers by sharing access to public radio’s knowledge, skills and institutions. In preparation, I spent an afternoon of binge listening their stories. Soon realized there was […]
Our primary outreach and engagement goals for A Lot Like You have been to get this film seen by as many people as possible AND to show up for the thoughtful conversations that our story evokes. Until now, these two have gone hand in hand. Whether I’m traveling to festivals, museums, campuses, […]
In honor of Women’s History Month, our educational distributors ~ Collective Eye ~ asked female filmmakers to reflect on their experiences as women in the film industry. What they shared is enlightening, inspiring, and insightful. You can read the full blog post HERE. I had the pleasure of answering their final question (see […]
It’s been 4 hours, and I’m still buzzing from live tweeting this truly PHENOMENAL conversation between Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — about fiction/prose, identity, class, strong women, global mixed race experience, global blackness (being “the good black” vs. African American), retaining agency in interracial relationships, African fashionistas, trauma, Black hair, […]
In its third #NotYourAsianSidekick Google Hangouts On Air, 18MillionRising will explore the ways multiracial identity impacts AAPI organizing and movement building. Panelists will discuss historical and contemporary successes and challenges related to the ways multiraciality disrupts and complicates racism and the racial construct. We will also delve into what it […]
If you just found us following the PBS broadcast of A Lot Like You on AfroPop ~ Welcome!! Over the past 3 years, we have been hearing from viewers around the world about the amazing conversations inspired by our film that continue long after our movie ends. So we created the ALLY Project to make a […]
So throughout the month of February, AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange will be airing episodes of A Lot Like You on the World Channel. Be sure to check your local PBS listings!! Many thanks to Sean Jacobs for this kind mention of “A Lot Like You (a beautiful piece of introspective filmmaking; definitely […]
The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience is excited to screen A Lot Like You, an award-winning documentary by Seattle filmmaker Eliaichi Kimaro. Kimaro was reluctant to put herself into her film about her father. However, as more truths were unearthed, the lens through which they were […]
This Fall has been a crazy season of work and travel. But I’m finally surfacing, and look forward to having the time and space to reflect on some of the gems from the last few months…starting with these amazing ALLY Project cards from our encore screening at Vancouver Asian Film […]