GENRE: Drama
PROJECT STATUS: Post Production, Crowdfunding
DIRECTOR: Kiara Lauren
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/WRITER: Booker Vance
PRODUCER/WRITER: Sydney Lolita Cusic
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Nkosi Roma
PRODUCER: Faoileán Cosgrove
PRODUCER: Valeria Benítez
1ST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Zahri Josita Jackson
LOGLINE: Upon his return to a recently gentrified Chicago, Sean Eberhart finds his memories of home colliding with a stark new reality.
SYNOPSIS: Sonder is Written and Produced by a team of South Side Chicago Natives, Booker Vance and Sydney Cusic, who have first hand experience on what it’s like to be grown on the cornerstone of Cottage Grove but apprehensive to return as full time residents again. Sonder has been a labor of love blossoming from a trip home for Booker in the Winter of 2020. He was overwhelmed by memories and the beauty of his hometown when acting as a tour guide for his girlfriend who had never been to Chicago. Through sharing it with someone who had never experienced it he realized it was time for Chicago to get its own love letter that could be experienced through film by the folks who call it home and beyond. Deeply inspired by films like Last Black Man in San Francisco which explores gentrification in San Francisco and Residue which dives deep into rapidly changing Southwest D.C.
