Sofia Sondervan
ProducerSofia is a New York-based film producer for Dutch Tilt Film. She is an experienced executive in all aspects of creative, film production, acquisitions, deal making, distribution and sales.
Sofia's most recent film, London Town, was released December, 2016. Other films to her credits include: "Urge" (2015) Co-Producer "The Man Who Knew Infinity" (2015 film) Bringing Up Bobby" (2011 film) Cadillac Records - 2008 Feel the Noise - 2007 The King - 2005 Rick - 2005 The Hebrew Hammer - 2003 Party Monster - 2003 |
Darnell Martin
Director-ScreenwriterDarnell is a director and writer. She was the first African-American woman to direct a studio feature, I Like It Like That (1994) for which she won the award for Best New Director from the New York Film Critics Circle Awards. She has also been nominated by her peers 9 times for Best Director, Outstanding Writer, Best Screenplay both film and television, Best Director both Film and Television throughout her career. more
She is best known as writer and director for her work: Cadillac Records (2008) Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005) The Lost Valentine (2011) |
Sometimes Beautiful...Sometimes Beautiful is the story of Senator William Chandler’s (protegee of Abraham Lincoln), persecution of Mary Baker Eddy, the richest and
second most famous woman in the world after the Queen of England at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Many people including Mark Twain have been obsessed with Mary Baker Eddy and what she was able to accomplish as a sickly, middle aged, abandoned and poverty stricken woman in the male dominated eighteen hundreds. Our story starts in New England in 1909 during another one of its infamous witch hunts but instead of burning her, they are bringing Mary Baker Eddy to trial claiming that she isn't fit to run her own business. Senator William Chandler wants to have her declared mentally unstable and make her a ward of her illiterate, itinerant and estranged son George Washington Glover. Mary Baker Eddy is a problem for the typical 19th Century man. She is a strong independent woman who grew up on a farm during the harsh New England winters. Being bed ridden by her weak constitution she self educated by reading voraciously. She came from a very strict Calvinist upbringing where she gained the roots of her faith. She was widowed at an early age and her son was taken away from her due to her inability to support him financially or physically. She spent her early life trying to regain custody of her son by marrying a philandering dentist who abandoned her and left her penniless. |
William Chandler is the tragic idealist, he grew up with the promise of a free America with equality for all. He idolized Lincoln and prefers the past often reliving it through his charming second wife Lucy. Lucy was the daughter of Senator John P. Hale, the strongest abolitionist in the Senate. She was beloved by Lincoln’s son and was secretly engaged to his killer, John Wilkes Booth. Even though she married Chandler in her spinsterhood, she has never gotten over her love for Booth. When we meet her she is in the early stages of dementia, however she is pulled into her husband’s obsession with Mary Baker Eddy. Through her friendship with Abraham Lincoln’s daughter-in-law, who is a follower, she becomes quite fascinated with Mary Baker Eddy.
William Chandler is asked by the infamous Joseph Pulitzer, the Newspaper magnet, to put together a case against Mary Baker Eddy. Chandler tracks down her son George Washington Glover who has a deep love for his mother, and convinces him to bring her to trial. There is some doubt about whether Ms Eddy is still alive but once that is resolved, a trial is set in motion. Against all odds she prevails. |
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This project has a Prayer Team that meets to support the development and integrity of this film. Your prayerful support is welcomed!
Specific topics to focus on to get you started: -Pray for gratitude that God is directing our path. -Pray for clarity in the message of the story. -Pray for God's omnipotence and infinite blessings. -Pray that we see God continuing to do more than we could ever ask for. |
...when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. |
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