Gale force winds met us as we approached the airport. You could literally hear and feel the plane bending. That was by far the bumpiest landing I’ve had in a long while. Diarah N’Daw-Spech, the festival director, picked me up at the airport. It was well after midnight! On the drive to the […]
a friend suggested that i keep a running journal of this trip. and thanks to my new smartphone that arrived last night, i’m going to see how this goes… 2:45~waiting on the plane, which has been delayed by a few hours. not so bad on this end, as […]
Thanks to the African Diaspora Film Festival (ADFF), we’ll be screening A Lot Like You at the Schomburg Center in Harlem Thursday, December 8th @ 8:30pm. Our film will be featured as part of “Women Indies Night” and will be screening together with The Dream Team. Please join us for this […]
In Dec 2009, I talked with Susan McCabe (Voice of Vashon) about the new direction our film was taking. In this clip, we consider the gap between the film I set out to make vs. what I discovered while filming in Tanzania… A Lot Like You is playing 8pm tonight […]
This Thursday, the theatre hosts a benefit screening of A LOT LIKE YOU with proceeds going to the DoVE Project, the island aid group for domestic violence survivors. Director Eli Kimaro’s documentary uses a wealth of island talent with familiar names, but the story at the heart of her film […]
[From VashonMaury-Island Beachcomber] A film with a powerful message A prize-winning new documentary, “A Lot Like You,” will screen at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, at the Vashon Theatre. The film is directed by Eliaichi Kimaro, a first-generation American with a Tanzanian father and Korean mother who traveled to Tanzania […]
indieWIRE’s blog, Shadow and Act, previewed A Lot Like You for its upcoming screening at the African Diaspora International Film Festival in New York on Thursday 12/8. If you’re in town, I will also be speaking on a panel about “Monetizing Independent Cinema” on Saturday 12/10 at 2pm at Columbia University (Teacher’s College). […]
Central Cinema Marquee – 10/21/2011 HUGE thanks to all who came out tonight, to Connie and Jake for making this event possible by placing the winning Strangercrombie bid for this screening, and to Central Cinema for creating such a fabulous venue for film enthusiasts and filmmakers alike!!
Connie Burk Jake Fawcett This Friday 10/21, the NW Network will be hosting a screening of A Lot […]
Storytelling is a vital path towards social transformation. The NW Network of Bi, Trans, Lesbian, & Gay Survivors of Abuse has been turning silence into stories into social change for nearly 25 years. Join us as we share the story of our Board President, Eli Kimaro. Her full length independent […]