Being a part of this amazing project for 7 years now, there are many topics that have made an impact on me. But the strongest is a heightened appreciation for the power of sharing one’s story. I had the extreme good fortune of watching this process in action during the […]
Stories mean a lot to me. I was the kid with thick glasses in kindergarten because I kept reading Harry Potter books under the covers, even after my mom turned the lights off. I enjoyed hearing improvised tales from my grandma about princesses, who fought ghosts and angry fathers. Then […]
We have been invited to participate in Reel Change: Managing Social Issue Film Campaigns – presented by Working Films and The Fledgling Fund in collaboration with the Center for Social Media. Thanks to the generous support of our dear friends, Jeff and Jamie Merriman-Cohen, we are able to attend this intensive 3-day workshop that […]
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 […]
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 […]
Momo 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 […]
We’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 […]
Cleveland 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 […]
SFIAAFF 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 […]
I 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 […]