Kelly+Yamamoto Productions | The Dreamers and I
For more than twenty-five years, independent filmmakers Nancy Kelly and Kenji Yamamoto have been making critically-acclaimed films that have screened in theaters, film festivals, museums, and communities worldwide and aired on PBS, Showtime, Sundance, and Britain’s Channel Four, (among others). Their filmmaking philosophy is to take alternative looks at stories, themes and characters and to tell specific stories from which audiences can generalize universal truths.
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The Dreamers and I

The Dreamers and I is an emotionally complex documentary about dreams colliding with reality.

 

While staying at a Silicon Valley hacker house (a co-living space for entrepreneurs), the filmmaker, Kenji, met Carlos, the hacker house owner, from Madrid; Habibe, a Uyghur Chinese female scientist from Istanbul and Lucas, an AI developer from Seville. Each of them had left their families at home to pursue their startup dreams. Inspired by his three characters, Kenji becomes the film’s fourth character and joins them in the Sisyphean struggles of self-doubt, financial ruin and extended separations from family to make his artistic dreams a reality.

 

Key Credits

Director/Producer/Director of Photography/Editor: KENJI YAMAMOTO
Producer/Writer: NANCY KELLY

Funded by

The ITVS Diversity Development Fund
desJardins/Blachman Fund
Stephanie Anderson Pugash Fund
DocLands Documentary Film Festival Jury Prize
Stevens-Smith Charitable Fund
Loveland Fund