Our primary outreach and engagement goals for A Lot Like You have been to get this film seen by as many people as possible AND to show up for the thoughtful conversations that our story evokes. Until now, these two have gone hand in hand. Whether I’m traveling to festivals, museums, campuses, […]
It’s been 4 hours, and I’m still buzzing from live tweeting this truly PHENOMENAL conversation between Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — about fiction/prose, identity, class, strong women, global mixed race experience, global blackness (being “the good black” vs. African American), retaining agency in interracial relationships, African fashionistas, trauma, Black hair, […]
In its third #NotYourAsianSidekick Google Hangouts On Air, 18MillionRising will explore the ways multiracial identity impacts AAPI organizing and movement building. Panelists will discuss historical and contemporary successes and challenges related to the ways multiraciality disrupts and complicates racism and the racial construct. We will also delve into what it […]
We’ve been invited by our friends at the African Diaspora International Film Festival to screen A Lot Like You as part of their “Best Docs of ADIFF 2011” series! WHAT: A Lot Like You WHEN: Jan. 15, 2012 @6pm WHERE: Teachers College, Columbia University 525 West 120th Street – Room 263 Macy COST: […]
The screening event was fabulous. The picture/sound quality was phenomenal–which was particularly impressive when I realized they were projecting from my preview DVD (turns out their DVCAM deck had died a gruesome death only a few days earlier. I can only imagine how much better it would’ve looked in DV/HDCAM!) The post-screening Q&A was […]
Met with Leslie Goffe (BBC World News) at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library prior to our screening. We had an intensely engaging conversation that covered a lot of ground in a very short period of time. But I must admit to still being so green at […]
delivery chicken just down the way
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 […]