This is Me Loving You, 86 min, in post-production

Sydney, a gregarious heroin user, moves into a Chicago abstinence-based recovery home and befriends Julia, an alcoholic filmmaker. When Sydney gets pregnant and returns to her abusive boyfriend, both women re-enter a world of abuse and addiction where they must choose between protecting those they love and saving themselves. An intimate portrait of friendship forged in the trenches of overlapping crises, This is Me Loving You is a manifesto of radical care that shows what it means to heal ourselves in spite of systems that promise support but so often hold us down.

Director, Producer, Cinematographer: Julia Hunter
Producers: Julia Hunter, Hannah Donegan, Marc Serpa Francoeur, Robinder Uppal, Danny Alpert
Editor: Troy Lewis
Associate Editor: Ingrid Roettgen

A co-production of Mayday Films and ITVS, in association with Lost Time Media and Kindling Group

Produced in collaboration with ITVS, with support from BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship, Crossroads Fund, and DCASE

This is Me Loving You was presented at the Big Sky Pitch, Ji.hlava New Visions Forum: U.S. Docs, and Film Independent Documentary Story Lab