Dreaming in American Trailer - February 2009

Dreaming in American gives expression to the diverse dreams, memories, fears, and fantasies imagined by Brazilian immigrants to the US who live their lives in between places. Focusing on the struggles of one small rural community in Minas Gerais, Brazil, the film examines the American Dreams magnetic force in inspiring thousands of Brazilians to immigrate illegally to the United States, providing glimpses into the convoluted networks set up to realize this ultimately elusive goal.

In the town's modest living rooms and kitchens, the mostly fictional and materialistic myths of America melt together in the imagination and become the ideal of happiness, desire, and success. Because of the power of the subjunctive reality—that of desire, doubt, and dream—each of the characters exists more fully in an imaginary place somewhere between Brazil and the US. The film illustrates this complex reality by incorporating hand-drawn rotoscoped animation in scenes of live-action vérité. Reflecting the fractured nature of many immigrants lives, Dreaming in American leaps back and forth between Brazil and the US, English and Portuguese, the past and the present, the real and the imagined.

http://www.dreaminginamerican.com

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[wolftreetree]

Pray for the USA there are wicked people in high places trying to destroy us, if you come here, keep your citizenship as dual citizenship. That way you can return if you have to, also help your adopted country, don't try to take and not give back, help those slipping through the cracks which are widening daily. God bless

[aisx]

that was a very moving trailer. you picked the filmed the perfect moments.

[eupnoea09]

Beautifully done! I cannot wait to see it.

[eniops]

Congratulations Eliot, Zoe and Mila. I think mlla can put a portuguese legend in this trailer to more people understand .