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 […]
Check out this very cool write up of ALLY by our friend, Chithra Jeyaram, in her doc film blog Real Talkies…
Recent feature article about A Lot Like You by Rahkia Nance in Neo Black Cinema, an online Independent Film Magazine for People of Color…
Earlier this year, I spoke with Angela Peabody, author of Exiled and Editor-In-Chief of Global Woman Magazine, about our journey with this film. Check out the resulting feature article about ALLY in Global Woman that was just e-published in the Fall issue of this online magazine…
The U.S. currently lags behind several Western European countries in closing a legislative loophole banning the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) beyond its borders to protect U.S. citizens and residents. But this may soon change. Some 6,000 girls endure FGM every day, totaling about 100 to 140 million girls […]
VIENNA, Feb 17, 2010 (IPS) – With hundreds of thousands of girls and women believed to be at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Europe, rights groups have mounted a campaign to get EU leaders to stop what they see as a barbaric and dangerous procedure. FGM – an […]
In September 2009, we had a Work-In-Progress test screening at NW Film Forum. While the audience felt it was a perfectly lovely film, they really pushed us to dig deeper—to get past “Seattle Nice” and reveal the truth, the core, the heart of our film. This screening served as a […]