A Lot Like You Director: Eliaichi Kimaro The documentary A Lot Like You begins with an image of the filmmaker Eliaichi Kimaro’s daughter, Lucy, with Kimaro wondering in voiceover how she will answer the inevitable question of mixed-race children: “What am I, Mama?” A viewer might expect that such a […]
A Lot Like You will be screening on March 28, 29, and 30th as part of Cleveland International Film Festival. (tickets go on sale 3/9) As we mentioned earlier, thanks to CIFF being the sole recipient of a grant from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, they are […]
(email from mom…) Hello Eli, Last night, Moshi folks turned up in droves to see your movie, surprising everyone, even to those who organized the event. There was a gang of 20 that turned up from our neighbor village of Marangu. They rented a car to come. Obviously the word had […]
Help us spread the word!! The 30th Annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival officially launched their festival with a press conference this evening, and by going live with their beautiful new website!! SFIAAFF is the nation’s largest showcase for new Asian American and Asian films, annually presenting approximately 130 works […]
I have been invited to screen our film and deliver a keynote as part of Black History/Heritage Month at University of Arizona (Tucson). Here’s the description from the event’s facebook page, brought to you by the event organizer, April Petillo: Eliaichi Kimaro is a activist, speaker and advocate who has dedicated her talents […]
* The Citizen reposted Tyrone Beason’s article, Seattle filmmaker finds herself in her Tanzanian family which originally appeared in the Seattle Times (Jan. 29, 2012). this morning’s email from Mama: Hello Eli, Mr. Shah congratulated me on the feature article in The Citizen* even before we had gotten our newspaper. So, Baba […]
our feature in the Seattle Times hits newsstands today, and we couldn’t be more grateful for this beautifully written, in-depth article from Tyrone Beason. if you’re viewing it online, be sure to scroll through the pictures. and if you happen to be in Seattle…might we say, it’s definitely worth seeing this layout […]
We’re so excited to announce that A Lot Like You is an official selection of the Africa World Documentary Film Festival. As part of this traveling festival, our film might be screening in the following cities/countries in the coming months: Yaoundé, Cameroon Birmingham, Alabama St.Louis, Missouri Cave Hill, Barbados Lawrence, […]
This summer I had the opportunity to watch A Lot Like You as part of the Seattle International Film Festival. Amazing! The film raised so many important questions and provided such critical insight into how interconnected our experiences of race, class, gender, trauma and sexuality can be in forming our cultural […]
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 […]