Alex Sichel

A WOMAN LIKE ME is a hybrid documentary that interweaves the real story of director Alex Sichel, diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2011, with the fictional story of Anna Seashell, who struggles to find the glass half full when faced with the same diagnosis. The film follows Alex as she uses her craft to explore what is foremost on her mind while confronting a terminal disease: parenting, marriage, faith, life, and death. When we are stuck between a rock and hard place, can our imagination get us out?

An unsettling portrait of childhood, as a young girl struggles with conflicting memories of her recently dead Greek grandmother and recreates the presence of her with a video monitor shrine adorned with candles.

Claude and Ellen are best friends who live in a not-so-nice area of New York. They're involved in the subculture of 90s youth, complete with drugs, live music, and homophobia. All is changed one night when a violent and meaningless death rocks their lives.

After coming clean about his relapse, a young addict must face the fall out.

Looks at the emergence of lesbian feature filmmakers in the U.S. and how they produce films on a small budget. Interviews with directors Rose Troche (Go Fish); Sharon Pollack (Everything Relative); and Alex Sichel (All Over Me) as well as producer Dolly Hall, executive producer Christine Vachon and writers Sylvia Sichel and Guinevere Turner.

A WOMAN LIKE ME is a hybrid documentary that interweaves the real story of director Alex Sichel, diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2011, with the fictional story of Anna Seashell, who struggles to find the glass half full when faced with the same diagnosis. The film follows Alex as she uses her craft to explore what is foremost on her mind while confronting a terminal disease: parenting, marriage, faith, life, and death. When we are stuck between a rock and hard place, can our imagination get us out?

A WOMAN LIKE ME is a hybrid documentary that interweaves the real story of director Alex Sichel, diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2011, with the fictional story of Anna Seashell, who struggles to find the glass half full when faced with the same diagnosis. The film follows Alex as she uses her craft to explore what is foremost on her mind while confronting a terminal disease: parenting, marriage, faith, life, and death. When we are stuck between a rock and hard place, can our imagination get us out?

An unsettling portrait of childhood, as a young girl struggles with conflicting memories of her recently dead Greek grandmother and recreates the presence of her with a video monitor shrine adorned with candles.

An unsettling portrait of childhood, as a young girl struggles with conflicting memories of her recently dead Greek grandmother and recreates the presence of her with a video monitor shrine adorned with candles.

Claude and Ellen are best friends who live in a not-so-nice area of New York. They're involved in the subculture of 90s youth, complete with drugs, live music, and homophobia. All is changed one night when a violent and meaningless death rocks their lives.

After coming clean about his relapse, a young addict must face the fall out.