{"id":27862,"date":"2013-01-26T03:50:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T03:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27862"},"modified":"2013-10-04T02:55:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T02:55:11","slug":"a-lot-like-you-a-film-by-eliaichi-kimaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27862","title":{"rendered":"A Lot Like You: A Film by Eliaichi Kimaro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/alotlikeyoumovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Lot Like You: A Film by Eliaichi Kimaro<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>USA\/Tanzania<br \/>\n2012<br \/>\n55 minutes\/82 minutes<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/alotlikeyoumovie.com\/about-2\/film-team\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eliachi Kimaro<\/a><\/strong>, Director<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alotlikeyoumovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seattleglobalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ALLY-Movie-Poster_rev.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(2012) WINNER, Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary: 35th Annual Asian American International Film Festival (New York)<\/li>\n<li>(2012) WINNER, Best Documentary: Female Eye Film Festival (Toronto)<\/li>\n<li>(2012) WINNER, Jury Prize for Best Documentary: 30th Annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival<\/li>\n<li>(2011) WINNER, Public Award for the Best Film Directed By a Woman of Color: African Diaspora International Film Festival (New York)<\/li>\n<li>(2011) WINNER, Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature: Montreal International Black Film Festival<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eliaichi Kimaro is a mixed-race, first-generation American with a Tanzanian father and Korean mother. When her retired father moves back to Tanzania, Eliaichi begins a project that evocatively examines the intricate fabric of multiracial identity, and grapples with the complex ties that children have to the cultures of their parents.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nKimaro decides to document her father\u2019s path back to his family and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chaga_people\" target=\"_blank\">Chagga<\/a> culture. In the process, she struggles with her own relationship to Tanzania, and learns more about the heritage that she took for granted as a child. Yet as she talks to more family members, especially her aunts, she uncovers a cycle of violence that resonates with her work and life in the United States. When Kimaro speaks with her parents about the oppression her aunts face, she faces a jarring disconnect between immigrant generations on questions of patriarchy and violence.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cOne reason this film works,\u201d notes Tikkun Magazine, \u201cis that Kimaro situates her own personal family history within a social, historical, and political context of African decolonization, transnational relations, race, class, and gender politics.\u201d With poignant personal reflection and an engaging visual style, <em>A Lot Like You<\/em> draws the viewer into a journey that is filled with rich, multifaceted stories and history.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/23098957?byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lot Like You: A Film by Eliaichi Kimaro USA\/Tanzania 2012 55 minutes\/82 minutes Eliachi Kimaro, Director (2012) WINNER, Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary: 35th Annual Asian American International Film Festival (New York) (2012) WINNER, Best Documentary: Female Eye Film Festival (Toronto) (2012) WINNER, Jury Prize for Best Documentary: 30th Annual San Francisco International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,16,395,125,8,842],"tags":[13482,9496],"class_list":["post-27862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-videos","tag-eliachi-kimaro","tag-tanzania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}