Dreamlink | Sci-Fi Short Film | DUST
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🪐 You are entering a fictional zone: reality has been suspended.
The crumbling relationship between an influencer mother and her neglected daughter finds an unexpected remedy in DreamLink, a revolutionary app merging dreams and reality that promises to connect them with the person they need most.
“Dreamlink” by Kalani Gacon
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https://www.instagram.com/helenazadrojones/
https://www.instagram.com/rileysaxton/
🎬 Director’s Statement:
Dreamlink was created through Mountain of Youth, a filmmaking organisation I founded as an experiment in giving young people real authorship over cinema. Beyond just filmmaking training, we created an immersive space where young people from diverse backgrounds could transform their lived experiences into a story.
Over six months, eleven students explored their own lives through storytelling exercises, conversations and filmmaking workshops. Themes of online connection, fractured family relationships, loneliness, mental health and the pressure of social media began to surface. Those shared experiences became the emotional foundation of Dreamlink.
Dreamlink is about a teenager searching for connection through technology, but it is also about something larger: what happens when young people who are rarely handed the mic are trusted to tell the truth.
🎞️ About the Film:
Writer/Director/Producer – Kalani Gacon
Writer/Producer – Helena Zadro-Jones
Producer – Riley Saxton
DOP – Michael Steele
Production Design – Ana Maria Carrizales
Costume Design – Anna Gardiner
Editor – Kris Rowe
Sound Design – Andrew Bellety
Cast:
Chloe Engels
Ebony Nave
Eva Chen
Liliana De La Rosa
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