Director-producers Saelyx Finna, Mia Imani, and Laurie Polisky will make a documentary about dream know-how and surveillance with the backing of Gamechanger Films and Sandbox Films. According to a press launch, the trio are growing their undertaking, “Under the Dream,” as recipients of Gamechanger and Sandbox’s Creative Science Nonfiction Accelerator award. Designed to spice up range, fairness, and inclusion in science documentary filmmaking, the prize comes with $50,000 to develop the undertaking in addition to “a full spectrum of creative and practical support from Sandbox and Gamechanger.”
“Under the Dream,” which delves into the burgeoning discipline of dream tech and the Black-led motion to guard our minds’ privateness, will probably be government produced by Gamechanger CEO Effie Brown and Sandbox Head of Production and Development Jessica Harrop.
The filmmakers said, “We are inspired by and in conversation with the Radical Rest Movement, neuroethics, and neurorights advocacy, contemplative practice and contemplative science, and the myriad artists and dreamworkers across millennia who have honored the dreamscape as a powerful site of discovery, expression, problem-solving, ritual, and liberation.” They defined, “We are members of the Guild of Future Architects, one of the homes for our work with dream tech and Radical Rest.”
“As filmmakers, we believe that sleep and dreams are sacred spaces for personal and collective healing,” Finna, Imani, and Polisky continued. “With ‘Under the Dream,’ we seek to raise questions like: how could tech that interacts with our dreams help or hurt us? Who can afford to dream? How might rest become a central part of racial reparations?”
Brown added, “Gamechanger Films thrives on expansive storytelling that challenges what we think we know and demands alternative perspectives. ‘Under the Dream’ is undoubtedly a project that will stir many minds to reframe and reimagine their respective places within the universe, and sit with our conceptions of leadership and protection and what that looks like.”
Bios for Finna, Imani, and Polisky are beneath, courtesy of Gamechanger and Sandbox.
Co-director, Producer Mia Imani interrogates the ways in which disenfranchised communities can heal particular person, communal, and societal trauma by creating works that stay in-between the worlds of artwork and science. This “third-way” mixes unconventional strategies (desires, rituals) and science (ethnography, geography, psychoanalysis) to dream new potential methods of being. Her inventive and collaborative work has lived within the Northwest Film Forum, Seattle Art Museum Lab, Savvy Contemporary, and is increasing into the digital and different interdisciplinary areas. Her written work lives each digitally and in print inside publications Cultured Magazine, Contemporary And, Daddy Magazine, Frieze, Hyperallergic, Vice, and extra.
Co-director, Producer Saelyx Finna has over a decade of expertise as a movie nonprofit CEO, producer, story and distribution advisor, movie programmer, influence producer, and dream tech researcher. As a advisor, Saelyx has labored with Sundance, AMC, DOC NYC, the Criterion Collection, Film Independent, Cinereach, and Academy Award nominees. Previously often known as Courtney Sheehan, Saelyx is the previous inventive and government director for Northwest Film Forum (NWFF), Seattle’s beloved nonprofit movie heart and artwork home theater. Saelyx has introduced on the neuroethics of dream tech on the Interaction Design Association and International Association for the Study of Dreams. She produced the narrative characteristic MUGRI (post-production), and is a creator and host of the podcast Under the Dream.
Co-director, Producer Laurie Polisky (she/her) is a filmmaker and podcast producer with a background in neuroscience. She is the director/producer of the characteristic documentary PAIN BRAIN, which follows a mind-body examine on continual ache examine on which Laurie was a co-author; the outcomes had been printed in JAMA Pyschiatry. Fascinated by the best way that audio and visible media can be utilized to translate scientific concepts to most people, she can also be the producer of the psychological well being podcast Tell Me about your Pain, ranked within the prime one % of most listened-to podcasts about psychological well being. She is a creator and host of the podcast Under the Dream, and has labored on movies together with THE SOCIAL DILEMMA (2020) and CLASSIC (2019).
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