What is Craving Community?

Across generations, we’ve been told that partying is the key to connection. From teen comedies to beer commercials, media has trained us to equate fun with being altered—and belonging with being buzzed. We didn’t invent that script. We absorbed it. We performed it. And for a while, it worked.

Until it didn’t.

Craving Community is a feature documentary that explores how media and culture normalized the party lifestyle—and how it often leaves people more disconnected than ever. But this isn’t a story about rock bottom. It’s about what happens next: the quiet realization that there’s another way to belong.

Through personal stories, cultural critique, and immersive scenes from sober and sober-curious spaces, the film invites viewers to rethink what connection really means. This isn’t about perfection. It’s about presence—and the communities we can build when we stop trying to escape ourselves and start showing up for each other.