Dreamer

I have been all three of the characters in Dreamer at one point in my life. I was these people because I didn’t understand myself, what I needed, and what the other person in these relationships needed. It was complicated. There are layers to relationships that are made less complicated than they should be in a world where we are increasingly disconnected from each other and from nuance.
I found these nuances in the emotional connections I forged with films. In what I was seeing on the screen in some of my most cherished cinematic experiences, I learned one thing that I have never let go: It is okay to be complicated.
This is why I am going through the hell of filmmaking to realize this story. I want people to be able to see themselves in my characters; In situations that deserve to be treated with nuance. None of my characters are right, and none of them are wrong. Reading that in a screenplay is one thing, but the emotional power cinema inherently has over other forms of art is why this needs to exist in the capacity I have proposed it in.
This will see as many people as it can and that will certainly be good for the careers of those involved in this process. But I do this more because I think people need to see my story to reignite some kind of empathetic feeling that has been lost when we recount relationships. Every aspect of the direction of this film exists to attach the audience to my world and make them feel what I feel. To place themselves in each of these characters, understand them, and see themselves on every point of this love triangle.
To ask themselves what they would do if their dreams were different from their realities… And they had an opportunity to change that.