Director-producers Saelyx Finna, Mia Imani, and Laurie Polisky will make a documentary about dream expertise and surveillance with the backing of Gamechanger Films and Sandbox Films. According to a press launch, the trio are growing their challenge, “Under the Dream,” as recipients of Gamechanger and Sandbox’s Creative Science Nonfiction Accelerator award. Designed to spice up variety, fairness, and inclusion in science documentary filmmaking, the prize comes with $50,000 to develop the challenge 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, might be govt produced by Gamechanger CEO Effie Brown and Sandbox Head of Production and Development Jessica Harrop.
The filmmakers acknowledged, We are impressed by and in dialog with the Radical Rest Movement, neuroethics, and neurorights advocacy, contemplative observe and contemplative science, and the myriad artists and dreamworkers throughout millennia who’ve honored the dreamscape as a robust website of discovery, expression, problem-solving, ritual, and liberation. They defined, “We are members of the Guild of Future Architects, one of many properties for our work with dream tech and Radical Rest.
As filmmakers, we imagine that sleep and goals are sacred areas for private and collective therapeutic,” Finna, Imani, and Polisky continued. With ‘Under the Dream,’ we search to lift questions like: how may tech that interacts with our goals assist or damage us? Who can afford to dream? How would possibly relaxation change into a central a part of racial reparations?
Brown added, Gamechanger Films thrives on expansive storytelling that challenges what we predict we all know and calls for various views. ‘Under the Dream’ is undoubtedly a challenge that may stir many minds to reframe and reimagine their respective locations inside the universe, and sit with our conceptions of management and safety and what that appears 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 dwell in-between the worlds of artwork and science. This third-way mixes unconventional strategies (goals, 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 guide, movie programmer, affect producer, and dream tech researcher. As a guide, Saelyx has labored with Sundance, AMC, DOC NYC, the Criterion Collection, Film Independent, Cinereach, and Academy Award nominees. Previously referred to as Courtney Sheehan, Saelyx is the previous creative and govt director for Northwest Film Forum (NWFF), Seattles beloved nonprofit movie middle and artwork home theater. Saelyx has offered on the neuroethics of dream tech on the Interaction Design Association and International Association for the Study of Dreams. She produced the narrative function 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 function documentary PAIN BRAIN, which follows a mind-body research on persistent ache research on which Laurie was a co-author; the outcomes had been revealed in JAMA Pyschiatry. Fascinated by the way in which 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 podcastTell Me about your Pain, ranked within the high one p.c of most listened-to podcasts about psychological well being. She is a creator and host of the podcastUnder the Dream, and has labored on movies together with THE SOCIAL DILEMMA (2020) and CLASSIC (2019).
