Photo: First Look - Romantic Dramedy SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU, Inspired by Obama's First Date

Prolific independent entertainment studio IM Global and producers State Street Pictures (the "Barbershop" franchise) announced that production has begun on SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU, the romantic dramedy inspired by Barack and Michelle Obama's first date.

The film covers the eventful date in 1989 when a young associate named Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers) was trying to woo lawyer Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter) on a summer afternoon and evening, that took them from the Art Institute of Chicago to a screening of Spike Lee's DO THE RIGHT THING to the site of their first kiss outside of an ice cream parlor.

Richard Tanne makes his directorial debut with the project from his own screenplay.