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.
Director/Producer/Director of Photography/Editor: KENJI YAMAMOTO
Producer/Writer: NANCY KELLY
The ITVS Diversity Development Fund
desJardins/Blachman Fund
Stephanie Anderson Pugash Fund
DocLands Documentary Film Festival Jury Prize
Stevens-Smith Charitable Fund
Loveland Fund