How lucky are we to have A Lot Like You featured in the SIFF guide issue of Seattle Weekly!?! I couldn’t believe how much ground Brian Miller covered in our interview last week. And I’ve been curious ever since to see how this story would coalesce. To read Millers’ full article, click here… Well, […]
Many thanks to Imaginary Amie for highlighting A Lot Like You in her SIFF NW Connections preview! NW Documentaries include…How to Die in Oregon about a woman’s choice to end her life under OR’s Death with Dignity clause (bring some tissue, folks), and A Lot Like You, which follows Seattle […]
Oh little green star, you delight my heart! Lindy West at The Stranger recommends A Lot Like You: “I am a first-generation American,” Eliaichi Kimaro explains in voice-over near the beginning of her rich, complex autobiographical documentary. “Mom and Dad are from opposite ends of the globe. An interracial, bicultural couple.” […]
Continuing coverage of Diasporic films screening at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival, which begins on the 19th of this month… The documentary is titled A Lot Like You, and its short story goes… Eliaichi Kimaro (also the film’s director) is a mixed-race, first-generation American filmmaker, with a Korean mother […]
Our 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 […]
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 […]
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…