A Lot Like You

A Film by Eliaichi Kimaro

Category Archives: Production Notes

ALLY Reaches the White House!!!

June 24, 2010

Connie Burk (the NW Network Exec. Dir. and ALLY Exec. Producer) received an invitation to attend a White House reception in honor of GLBT Pride.  And guess who she invited as her “plus one?”   !!!?!?!? Our whirlwind trip to DC was nothing short of amazing.  Connie wrote a fabulous piece, detailing our adventures, complete […]

NW Network hosts ALLY Screening at EMP

May 20, 2010

This past Thursday, we had the remarkable fortune of screening our most recent cut at EMP’s JBL Theater.  ~150 people attended this fundraising event that was hosted by the NW Network as part of National Coalition of Anti-Violence Project’s annual roundtable discussion.  In 2003, the NW Network played a pivotal role in […]

AlphaCine, Screenings & Interviews

March 17, 2010

Holy Cow!  It’s confirmed—we’ll be partnering with Marc Brown at Alpha Cine to get our video looking pretty enough to project in HD at film festivals and theaters around the world 😉  What a dream!!! Our creative team is truly unbelievable… My brain is spinning.  We finished our script rewrites, […]

Bad Animals and Script rewrites

February 18, 2010

Wow!!!!  We just signed on to have Bad Animals do our final sound editing and mixing.  Dave Howe will be our engineer.  I continue to be amazed at the incredible team we’re assembling to help us fully realize this film.  Melissa Curtin has been helping us research and secure the […]

Digging Deeper, NPR, Vashonia

January 14, 2010

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 […]

Vunjo Girls Dorm Project

November 15, 2009

 We will be donating a portion of our film’s proceeds to support the girls’ dormitory construction project at Vunjo Secondary School in our village of Mwika.  This project feels like an ideal match, given the themes of gender violence and girls’ lack of access to education that we explore in our film. […]

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