This Is Me Loving You
Sydney, a charismatic heroin user, moves into a Chicago recovery home and befriends Julia, an alcoholic filmmaker.
When Sydney gets pregnant and returns to her boyfriend, both women reenter the world of abuse and addiction, a world that so often demands we choose between protecting each other or saving ourselves.
An intimate portrait of friendship made in the trenches of overlapping crises, This is Me Loving You is a manifesto of radical care showing what it means to heal ourselves in the midst of systems that promise support but instead hold us down.
This is Me Loving You
Production Companies: Mayday Films, Lost Time Media, Kindling Group
Director: Julia Hunter
Producers: Julia Hunter, Hannah Donegan, Marc Serpa Francoeur, Robinder Uppal, Danny Alpert
Co-Executive Producer: Jason Stephens
Participant Care and Ethics Advisor: Dr. Kameelah Mu’Min Oseguera, Marwa Consulting
Editor: Troy Lewis
Associate Editor: Ingrid Roettgen
Status: Post production
This Is Me Loving You is supported by
Catapult + True/False Rough Cut Retreat
2025
Film Independent Documentary Story Lab
2025
Big Sky Pitch
2024
BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship
2024
ITVS
Co-production
Jihlava New Visions Forum
2024
Crossroads Fund
2023 Youth Fund for Social Change Grant
DCASE
2024
