Leading up to the DVD release date, I can’t help thinking about all of the women and men I’ve interviewed over these past six years. I can remember each of them so vividly and I was so deeply honored to have sat across from them and listened to their stories. It’s an experience that will stay with me all of my life.
We weren’t able to bring you everyone’s story, obviously; we’d need ten films for that. But just because many stories didn’t make it into the final version ofYou Look a Lot Like Medoesn’t mean they don’t deserve to be heard. To be remembered. They do. As do all of the ones that remain unspoken. I hope that all those who shared their stories as part of this project, no matter how they were involved, were able to take something positive away from the experience of reaching out in the ways that they did.
I also dare to hope that this film will do what everyone who participated in it hopes, too: that it will further dialog, action, and change, and that part of that change might occur in someone’s interior life. That they will realize, perhaps for the first time, that they are not alone in what they are experiencing; that they can live a safe life and a whole life; and that that’s what they deserve.
That would be pretty…amazing. And so, the journey begins.
