Portland Premiere!
April 4, 2012Check out this Beautiful poster made up by the McMenamins marketing team for our upcoming Portland screening… See our McMenamins event listing here. Then buy your $5 Tickets Here!
Tag Archives: A Lot Like You
Feature in today’s CIFF daily blog
March 28, 2012March 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 […]
Thoughts from Juror Momo Chang
March 22, 2012Momo Chang is an award-winning writer/freelance journalist based in Oakland, California. She is a features editor for Hyphen, a national Asian American magazine focusing on arts, politics and culture. And she was one of this year’s SFIAAFF Doc Competition Jurors. Momo shares her reflections on her jury experience on her […]
Official Selection of Sarasota Film Festival/Through Women’s Eyes Film Festival
March 20, 2012We’re excited to announce that A Lot Like You is an Official Selection of Sarasota Film Festival and Through Women’s Eyes Film Festival! The 13th annual presentation of Through Women’s Eyes will feature independent documentaries, narratives, and short films by directors that increase awareness of the lives of women throughout […]
While in Cleveland…
March 19, 2012Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) is doing their part to keep me busy while I’m in town. And for these many opportunties to engage directly our audience, fellow filmmakers, and community members, I am so grateful!! So…here is a quick rundown of events: A Lot Like You‘s CIFF screenings will be sponsored […]
Confessions of a SFIAAFF Juror
March 17, 2012SFIAAFF Doc Competition Juror, Brian Hu, offers a behind-the-scenes look at what it means to serve on a festival jury. As someone who’s hoping to be summoned for Jury Duty one day, I appreciate this glimpse into the inner-workings of their decision making process, and his reflections on some of […]
A Lot Like You Wins Best Documentary at 30th SFIAAFF
March 15, 2012Just back from Closing Night at San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, and am delighted to share the news that A Lot Like You was honored with the CAAM/SFIAAFF 2012 Best Documentary Award! The 10 films included in SFIAAFF’s Doc Competition are truly phenomenal–powerful subject matter, compelling stories, beautifully told. So I am […]
People Everywhere are “A Lot Like You”
March 14, 2012I had the great pleasure of watching an engaging documentary, ‘A Lot Like You’, over the weekend at the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival. The aspect of the film that resonated most with me personally was the way it approached cultural identity. It touched on so many important cross-cultural […]
Art With Impact review
March 13, 2012‘A Lot Like You’ Film Review Tue, 03/13/2012 – 12:28pm | by ericroache When reviewing a film, one of the key measures of quality to us here at Art With Impact is the ability of the film to inspire action in the viewer. By that standard, as well as any […]
Beautiful review in SFIAAFF’s official blog…
March 7, 2012By Ravi Chandra, M.D. Memoirs of a Superfan, Volume 7.2: CAAMsanity! A LOT LIKE YOU … is powerful and heart-warming, telling several stories at once, and all of them well: the story of her Tanzanian father’s leaving his Chagga tribal roots, coming to America and marrying her Korean mother; a story […]