SIFF tickets on sale now!
May 5, 2011
The SIFF Box Office is officially open for business.
A Lot Like You screening dates
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Tue May 24 @ 7pm, Harvard Exit
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Sun June 12 @ 1pm, Admiral Theater
Tickets are on sale now at SIFF.NET
Mark your calendars!!!
May 2, 2011
We have our SIFF screening dates!
Our Official World Premiere will be…Tuesday, May 24 @ 7pm at the Harvard Exit in Capitol Hill.
ALLY’s 2nd screening will be the closing day of SIFF…Sunday, June 12 @ 1pm at Admiral Theater in West Seattle.
SIFF’s box office goes live on Thursday, May 5. We’ll keep our blog & facebook page updated with ticket info as it becomes available.
Hope to see you & your friends there!!!!
Our New Trailer…
April 30, 2011…and just in time for our Official World Premiere!!!
Many thanks to Jason King, our veteran trailer editor,
and to Will Hyde for the beautiful text animation.
From Fiona Otway
April 29, 2011Our dear friend, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Fiona Otway, is rocking the film world with her latest doc project, Hell and Back Again… Somehow in the midst of their phenomenal festival run and recent distribution deal, she still found time to include a post about our SIFF premiere. Her generosity cleary knows no bounds…
From Fiona’s blog: After years of hard work, courageous introspection, and potent creative collaborations, Seattle filmmaker Eli Kimaro will be sharing her debut feature documentary with the world. A LOT LIKE YOU screens at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 24th and June 12th. Don’t miss it!
Not only a remarkably personal record of the filmmaker’s own ethnic awakening, but also a compelling study on the roles that race and sex play in forming our cultural identities.
“A Lot Like You” is an Official Selection of SIFF!!
April 28, 2011On Thursday, May 5, SIFF announces the full festival lineup. This is also the day that they’ll launch their new website with the online festival program. And it’s the day that festival tickets go on sale…
But word’s getting out about some of the selected films for this year’s festival. Here’s an announcement from SIFF’s website highlighting the 35 festival films by local NW filmmakers…
🙂 happy to be in such good company…
Word Art
April 27, 2011the 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!!!
this film was born on the page…
April 24, 2011
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 when she came to visit in 2005. Those flipcharts covered every wall and door in my office…
Introducing…Producer Pete
April 16, 2011It’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, suffice it to say that we’re ever so grateful to Pete, and know that this film is as good as it is in large part because of his deep personal investment and commitment to this story.
Click Here to read more about his recent work, including projects related to A Lot Like You.
in 50 words or less…
April 8, 2011
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 words…coming soon to a festival program near you!)
EK journal pic~Chagga dancers
April 3, 2011
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 was born on the page…..