99 cents Dreams

Experimental

Director: Jason Rodi

RT: 80:00mins

Sunday September 30 10:00AM

“A genuine song of freedom and pure fantasy.”
Odile Tremblay, Le Devoir, February 22, 2007

“What on original idea! It’s wild in every aspect. Impossible to find a better way to travel at such a reasonable price.” Martin Gignac, lecinema.ca, February 21, 2007, (4 stars)

Synopsis:

Filmed in 18 cities from 12 different countries, (Arctic, USA, Canada, Vietnam, Japan, Denmark, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, India, Morocco, Antarctic), 99¢ Dreams carries us, with breathtaking images, in a dream-like world all the while remaining completely in reality. 99¢ Dreams is at once a documentary, an artistic film, a travel journal, and a captivating and stunning road-movie. 

Shot across the 7 continents in some of the most remote and surreal corners of the world, 99¢ Dreams is about an island where everything is possible. There, 8 dreamers journey to the edges of reality. On a stream of consciousness to the far reaches of the imagination, dreams of fame, power, freedom, and time travel collide. Everything in this movie is entirely real. There is no fiction, there is only now. 

In this age of hi-tech accessibility, Internet craze and user-generated broadcasts like YouTube, 99¢ Dreams, shot in video, confronts us to our own imagination. What happens when you film your life? Where does reality begin and fiction end? Drifting from illusion to disillusion, superficiality to substance, chimera to reality, the 8 protagonists in 99¢ Dreams all have their own foresight on life and are trying to grasp the meaning of it. Do we still have a dream?
     

Principle Cast:

Jason Rodi 
Johnny Ranger 
Thien Vu Dang 
Matt K. Williston
Pam Schneider
Thomans Csano 
Rikke Elsberg 
Karina Rodi 
Clarice Laender 
Elli Holland