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