Sneakerella is a 2022 American musical comedy film directed by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum and written by David Light & Joseph Raso, Tamara Chestna, Mindy Stern, and George Gore II.
A re-imagining of the classic fairy tale Cinderella, the film stars Chosen Jacobs, Lexi Underwood, Devyn Nekoda, Bryan Terrell Clark, Kolton Stewart, Hayward Leach, Robyn Alomar, Yvonne Senat Jones, Juan Chioran, and John Salley.
Overwhelmed by running the business alone, Trey has decided to sell the store, leading El to draw on memories of his mother and create a unique shoe design, with inspiration and help from the neighborhood.
The night of the gala, Zelly and Stacy trap El in the stockroom, but he is rescued by Gustavo, the community garden's magical caretaker.
As Trey prepares to close the store and move the family back to New Jersey, El throws away his designs, which are found by Gustavo.
One year later, El is in a relationship with Kira, and has transformed Laces into “El-evate”, his own sneaker store pushing new and creative designs for all of Queens.
In October, 2020, it was reported that Disney had begun production on Sneakerella, a modern re-imagining of the Cinderella story centered around sneaker culture, for Disney+.
David Light, Joseph Raso, Tamara Chestna, Mindy Stern, and George Gore II were writing the script, with Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum directing.
[2] Chosen Jacobs, Lexi Underwood, John Salley, Yvonne Senat Jones, Devyn Nekoda, Juan Chioran, Robyn Alomar, Bryan Terrell Clark, Kolton Stewart and Hayward Leach were announced to have been cast in the movie.
[15] Jennifer Green of Common Sense Media rated the film 4 out of 5 stars, stated that the story promotes different positive messages, such as being true to oneself and the difficulty for women to become entrepreneurs, found that the film manages to depict several role models that are positive, while praising the diversity among the characters across their national origins and sexuality.