SISTER CARRIE is an epic love story with a dark twist that takes place in Chicago, Montréal, and Paris. The film stars Eve Rydberg, world-renowned ballet dancer Fabrice Calmels, and Cameron Knight. It is written and directed by Daniel Nearing, the inaugural Filmmaker in Residence for the City of Chicago.
SISTER CARRIE is English in its American sequences and French in its sequences set in Québec and France. The feature adaptation is a hybrid narrative drawn from multiple literary sources, including three proto-feminist novels. It takes its name from Theodore Dreiser’s landmark Chicago novel (1900), but draws also from Alexandre Dumas’ (Fils) La Dame aux Camélias, Abbé Prévost’s Manon Lescaut, and Sherwood Anderson’s “Brothers.”
SISTER CARRIE is from the makers of the multilingual, multiracial HOGTOWN, called "the most original film made in Chicago about Chicago to date" by the Chicago Sun-Times and named one of the 10 Best Films of 2016 by Ben Kenigsberg of The New York Times, and of CHICAGO HEIGHTS, named by Roger Ebert to his last list of Best Art Films.
SISTER CARRIE traverses three centuries of romantic literature only to fall on the sword of the identity politics of the 21st. The film is both a celebration and an unflinching indictment of the male gaze.
Completed (Spring 2022) with the support of The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, MacDowell, The Puffin Foundation, the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Illinois Arts Council.
Contact: office@923films.com
IN MEMORIAM
Jean-Claude Carrière
Executive Producer: Robert Gecht
Co-Producers:
Fabrice Calmels
Angela J. Latham
Director: Daniel Nearing
Written by Daniel Nearing
and Sabrina Doyle
Editor: Philip Larkin
Visual Effects Editor: Kat Quintian
Associate Producers:
Jay Disney
Eve Rydberg
Cinematography: Nathaniel Walker
Costume Designer:
Angela J. Latham
Costuming Co-Design:
Melanie Parks
Eleanor Cotey
Gaffer and Crew Chief: Donald Winter
Story Consultants:
J.A. Glass
Herman Wilkins
Rudy Thauberger
Additional Cinematography: Jason Knade
Communication & Design: Lisa Klein
Composers:
Paul Bhasin
Fabrice Calmels
Choreography:
Fabrice Calmels
Lucas Segovia
Nicolas Blanc
CAST
Carrie - Eve Rydberg
Armand Duval - Fabrice Calmels
The Foreman - Cameron Knight
Simone Duval - Sylvie Sadarnac
Uriah - Seth McClellan
Minnie - Lindsay Ashcroft
Patrick Santoro - Gregory
Trace Forman - Najeeb Yaqub Al-Amin
Child Trace - Josiah Zion Paris
Lola - Sarah Weis
The Foreman's Wife - Roshaunda Ross-Orta
Child in Rags of Light - Isabella Josephine Libke
Music Box Cop 1 - Derek Nordstrom
Music Box Cop 2 - Doug Nordstrom
Stitcher 1 - Natalia Latham
Stitcher 2 - Hope Grady
Stitcher 3 - Sandy Boyd
Stitcher 4 - Hayley Zarifis
Stitcher 5 - Angela J. Latham
Girl Carrie - Isabella Josephine Libke
Alternate Carrie 1 - Luella Nandra
Alternate Carrie 2 - Cece Buday
Alternate Carrie 3 - Alyssia Duda
Alternate Carrie 4 - Isabella Stevens
Alternate Carrie 5 - Megan Wefel
Alternate Carrie 6 - Dara Holmes
Alternate Carrie 7 - Emma Alicz
Alternate Carrie 8 - Priyana Acharya
Alternate Carrie 9 - Justina Birden
Alternate Carrie 10 - Lily Cole
Alternate Carrie 11 - Emily Price
Alternate Carrie 12 - Autumn Steed
Alternate Carrie 13 - Kendall Scott
Alternate Carrie 14 - Yu Suzuki
Alternate Carrie 15 - Cori Kolasinski
Alternate Carrie 16 - Rhonda Emrich
Alternate Carrie 17 - Christy Jones
Alternate Carrie 18 - Lydia Carpenter
Alternate Carrie 19 - Crystal Gurrola
Alternate Carrie 20 - Caitlin Aquila
Alternate Carrie 21 - Rachel Lovett
Alternate Carrie 22 - Daphne Seberich
Alternate Carrie 23 - Liv Rivich
Alternate Carrie 24 - Nina Longid
Alternate Carrie 25 - Joyce Wippman
Music Box Patron 1 - Steve Pavlik
Music Box Patron 2 - Judy Dainton
Music Box Patron 3 - Arielle Gitlin
Music Box Patron 4 - Darren Smith
Music Box Patron 5 - Delanea Richmond
Music Box Patron 6 - Megan Nelson
Music Box Patron 7 - James Remillard
Music Box Patron 8 - Ryan Tucker
Music Box Patron 9 - Amaris Garcia
French Translation:
Augustin Cambeau
Fabien Brucy
Morgane LePage
Sarah Mancel
Research: John J. Nearing
Grips:
Sarah Mancel
Rebecca Russell
Set Photography:
Candi Helsel-Wilk
Production Assistants:
April Hornsby
Roshaunda Ross-Orta
Veena Zerang
Copy Editor: Beverly Loder
Sound Consultant: Alex Drumheller
Musicians
Emory University Symphony Orchestra
VIOLIN I
Kaito Mimura, Co-Concertmaster
Caroline Sikuta, Co-Concertmaster
Joel M. Felner MD, Concertmaster Chair,
Performing on the Giovanni Grancino violin, Milan, 1687
Christy Song, Assistant Concertmaster
Will Duan
Eric Zhang
Carol Xu
Doowon Kim
Alyssa Stegal
Victoria Gendron
Mirielle Ma
Ken Xiao
Alexander Koeppel
Chloe Nelson
Erin Yoon
Rebecca Goodwin
Cameron White
Judy Oh
Jonathan Park
VIOLIN II
Yihoon Shin, Principal
Edward Goodwin Scruggs, Principal Second Chair,
Performing on the Giuseppe Scarampella violin, Brescia, 1870
Thomas Sarsfield, Assistant Principal
Ruth Jao
Seyon Kim
Aritro Ray
Katie Shin
Sangin Paik
Austin Park
Dan Kim
Natali Vera Pimentel
Sophia Barthel
Alyssa Chen
Sherry Rui
Kevin Sun
Carl Dutton
Rizky Lubis
Sasha Lessin Burris
Harry Jing
Thomas Czick
VIOLA
Wilson Hsu, Principal
Siji Osunkoya, Assistant Principal
Sihyun Jeon
Christian Chae
Andrew Chung
Rachel Lee
Sirui Zhou
Duncan Tam
Julia Borthwick
Michael Blankfein
Emory Wilson
Ayusha Shrestha
Lily Short
Malhaar Nair
CELLO
Caleb Park, Co-Principal (soloist on most tracks)
Hwanwook Seong, Co-Principal
Sean Parker, Assistant Principal
Ahanu Banerjee
Alex Banul
Rachel Seong
Andrew Choi (soloist on "Chopin 3")
Tim Cho
Claire Lee
Jordan Leslie
Hannah Lu ¥
Edmund Wong
Solomon Kim
Richard Jensen
Austin Chuang
Harrison Helms
BASS
Hannah Perron, Principal
Alex Petralia, Assistant Principal
Max Heeden
FLUTE & PICCOLO
Listed alphabetically
Sara Ju
Claudia Wahoski
OBOE & ENGLISH HORN
Listed alphabetically
Jane Farrell
Helena Haas
CLARINET
Listed alphabetically
Henry Mangalapalli
Chunjin Park
BASSOON & CONTRABASSOON
Listed alphabetically
Vishaal Kareti
Nathan Muz
HORN
Listed alphabetically
Pulkit Gupta
Lana Millman
TRUMPET
Listed alphabetically
Nathaniel Lechtzin
Austin Watkinson
TROMBONE & BASS TROMBONE
Listed alphabetically
Graham Crain
Ethan Feldman
Max Inman
Shiven Sinha
TIMPANI
Alexa Mohsenzadeh
ORGAN
Jonathan Easter
Thanks
Rich Moskal
Dirk Fletcher
Larisa Elizondo
Jean de St Aubin
Rebecca Fons
Gloria Groom
William Schopf
Raphaël Berdugo
Rachel Rozycki
Konstantinos Armiros
Robert Stevens
Beckie Stochetti
Lara Ziemba
Nate Brandt
Betsey Grais
Keisha Dyson
Martin Rubin
Kathy Byrne
Todd Turina
Suzanne Patterson
Richard Dubugnon
Paula Hendrickson
Selcen Phelps
Kris Swanberg
Steven A. Jones
Nicole Bernardi-Reis
Olivia Curry
Sandy Boyd
Elaine Maimon
Andrae Marak
Jason Zingsheim
Lori Montalbano
Sanghoon Lee
Rhonda Jackson
Maeggie Maillet
Francis Palluau
Dawn Friedman
Maria Finitzo
Steve Kalb
Danika Vaughn
Thavary Krouch
Kyle Cubr
Ryan Oestreich
The Chicago Film Office
Governors State University
The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
The MacDowell Colony
Capezio
The Puffin Foundation
The Art Institute of Chicago
Canon USA
The Music Box Theatre
The Chicago Cultural Center
The Illinois Railway Museum
Old Jail / Sheriff’s House, Crown Point, IN
This project is partially supported
by an Individual Artists Program Grant
from the City of Chicago
Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events
and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
Shot on Location in:
Chicago, Illinois
Paris, France
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Crown Point, Indiana
Montréal, Québec
Sparta and Delphi, Greece
Viareggio and Milan, Italy
Based Upon
Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie
Sherwood Anderson's "Brothers"
Alexandre Dumas Fils' La Dame aux Camélias
The Abbé Prévost d'Exiles' The Story of Manon Lescaut
Attribution in Fair Use:
Excerpt from P.A. Larkin's "High Windows"
“She was a prism through which sorrow
could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer,
Everything Is Illuminated