Free screening of film documenting musician’s quest for recovery Feb. 7

Eric Kinkel is a Wauconda resident who lost his vocal cord capabilities 4½ years ago to anomalous brain trauma.

“In Search of His Lost Cords” is a 90-minute documentary film detailing Kinkel’s quest for recovery of both his brain and vocal cord functions. The film is a moving chronicle of resilience: a vocalist’s quest to recover his voices and musical identity after unimaginable loss.

A free screening is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, at the Wauconda High school auditorium theater, 555 N. Main St., Wauconda. The event will be hosted by Chicago’s own Lisa Roti, an actress and singer best known for her roles in Amazon's “Utopia,” NBC's “Chicago PD,” and Fox's “The Mob Doctor.” Roti stars in the upcoming thriller “Laundromat.”

The film navigates Kinkel’s his life experiences, accomplishments, self-taught musicianship, and subsequent struggles to recover his original voices beyond conventional medicine’s failures, which in most cases made his combined conditions far worse, so he can resume a normal life as he once did with the voice he was gifted with at birth.

The documentary was filmed, produced and edited by Justin LeBreck of Waysound Audio & Film studios in Fox River Grove, and co-produced by Executive producer Eric Kinkel, along with film host and Wauconda resident Wanda Speer, Alyssa Gummerson and Kristen Todoroff.

To see the trailer for the film, visit youtube.com/watch?v=eaOibEbIqbw.