Dream State
Short film In Production 2019
Director
Laura Nix
Doc Society helped with
Development
DREAM STATE is the tale of two war refugees who came to the U.S. to rebuild their lives, and 40 years later are passionately pursuing their creative dreams in a community of middleaged Chinese immigrants in suburban Los Angeles. This hybrid documentary explores the complexity of the immigration narrative and identity through a combination of staged dance sequences and observational storytelling.
Crew
Laura Nix
Director
Laura Nix directed THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING, (Toronto Film Festival 2014, Berlinale 2015), which was released domestically as well as in multiple international territories. Previously she directed and produced the documentary THE LIGHT IN HER EYES which premiered at IDFA, was broadcast on the PBS series POV, Al Jazeera Middle East, and toured the world as part of Sundance's Film Forward program. Her other feature directing credits include the comedic melodrama THE POLITICS OF FUR, which played in over 70 festivals internationally, and won multiple awards including the Grand Jury Prize at Outfest. She is the current Sundance Institute/Discovery Impact fellow, a film expert for the U.S. State Department’s American Film Showcase, and her nonfiction work has screened at over a hundred film festivals internationally, and on television via HBO, Arte, ZDF, VPRO, CBC, NHK, Canal +, IFC, and New York Times Op-Docs.
