So happy to find out this morning that A Lot Like You won the Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary at this year’s Asian American International Film Festival!!! Tender, intellectual, and reflective, director/writer Eliaichi Kimaro explores her intricate identity as a Tanzanian-Korean mixed-race, first-generation American in her award-winning documentary. A […]
We’re honored to have been invited to participate in the upcoming the 35th Annual Asian American International Film Festival. AAIFF is “the first and longest running festival in the country devoted to films by and about Asians & Asian Americans.” A Lot Like You will be screening Sunday, July 29th at […]
No sooner did I returned from LA than I had to turn around to head to Toronto for the Female Eye Film Festival. But who’s complaining?!! June in Toronto is Gorgeous, and I was looking forward to reconnecting with my dear college/rowing friend (and ALLY supporter) Chris Toperczer, whom I […]
A Lot Like You had its World Premiere at Seattle International Film Festival on May 24, 2011. SIFF rolled out the red carpet for the event. The beautiful Landmark Harvard Exit theater erupted in applause when we invited Mama Kimaro to join us onstage for the post-screening Q&A. Then the […]
Plus, a special live performance by Pete Droge! Mission Theater (a McMenamins venue) 1624 N.W. Glisan Portland, OR 97209 Sunday, May 20 $5 advance and day of at the door All ages welcome; recommended for 13 and over Buy Tickets Pete Droge – A Lot Like You music video (Motion […]
When we were invited to screen A Lot Like You at the 30th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, I knew I wanted to bring Lucy with me. SFIAAFF is the largest and most prestigious showcase for new Asian American and Asian films in North America, and I wanted Lucy to be […]
Can you believe the festival is now only days away? Unbelievable! So everyone is coming to me saying, “I know the big headline films, what about some smaller, really personal stories?” Well, you can’t go wrong with Eliaichi Kimaro’s A Lot Like You (which recently won Best Documentary at the […]
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March 28th, 2012 @ 6:51am Filmmaker Eli Kimaro explores her roots Eli Kimaro is a first-generation American, with a Chagga father, from Tanzania, and Korean mother. In 2003, shortly after she was married, she panicked. When she thought about the children she and her husband might have and realized that […]