Dreams Awake – Film News
“DREAMS AWAKE” WINS TWO AWARDS IN MONACO
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Movie filmed in Mt. Shasta area is a hit on festival circuit
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More Awards for Indie Film “Dreams Awake”
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Award-Winning “Dreams Awake” Goes International
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AWARD-WINNING “DREAMS AWAKE” KICKS OFF CINESOL FILM FESTIVAL
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AWARD-WINNING “DREAMS AWAKE”
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“DREAMS AWAKE” Wins Indie Fest Award
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Indie Film “Dreams Awake” Wins More Awards
Over this past weekend the independently produced feature film, “Dreams Awake,” received two more awards at two different film festivals, the Honolulu Film Awards and the Awareness Festival. |
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‘Dreams Awake’ Winner of 2 Gold Remis at Worldfest Houston 2012
‘Dreams Awake’ walked away with 2 Gold Remi Awards at WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival last Saturday; one Gold Remi for Dramatic Original and one for Screenplay. The annual event which ran from April 13 through April 22, screened 60 Feature films and 100 Short Films resulting in only 15% of the 3,500 entries becoming winners. |
“DREAMS AWAKE” World Premiere
“DREAMS AWAKE” has been confirmed as an Official Selection at the 45th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film and Video Festival this month. Its world premiere will screen on Thursday, April 19th. For more information about the film festival and the “DREAMS AWAKE” screening, go to the Worldfest Houston 2012 website at http://www.worldfest.org. |
Filmed on Mt. Shasta, ‘Dreams Awake’ is now a DVD
Viewers have praised the film for its beautiful scenic photography and the message it delivers. Deal, who has written numerous other screenplays, said the initial idea for the film came to him while he was sitting on the deck of his home near Hammond Ranch and looking at Mt. Shasta. READ MORE >>> |
SPIRITUALLY PROVOCATIVE FILM “DREAMS AWAKE” RELEASED
The independent film, “Dreams Awake”, a mystical family drama set at Mt. Shasta, will be released on DVD today. It has the distinction of being the only feature film written, shot, and edited in the Mt. Shasta, CA area. Way To Go Media developed the film project with its subsidiaries, Pendragon Pictures serving as the production company, and Silver Rose Cinema serving as the distributor. Way to Go Media is an exciting, new film development company dedicated to making independent films with metaphysical themes through illuminating and powerful stories. READ MORE >>> |
Jan 11, 2011
Area gets High Praise during Film Weekend
As an actress and model Erin Gray has spent most of her adult life in the big city lights. But, like thousand of others before her, she was drawn to Mt. Shasta for a different kind of illumination. Speaking during Sunday’s filmmaking seminar at College of the Siskiyous in Weed Speaking during Sunday’s filmmaking seminar at College of the Siskiyous in Weed, the former star of the TV shows Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and Silver Spoons, said she took a role in Jerry Alden Deal’s “Dreams Awake” movie because, “I’m on a journey of self-discovery… I’m trying to wake up and be more conscious… this film is about that in many ways. It’s about raising your energy to a higher level.” READ MORE >>> |
Mt. Shasta Herald
Go behind the Scenes of ‘Dreams Awake’
Get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the filmmaking process with “Dreams Awake” cast and crew at the 2008 Mount Shasta Film Festival. “Dreams Awake,” written, directed and produced by Ventura, Calif.-based filmmaker Jerry Alden Deal, is the first feature film to be written, shot and edited in the Mount Shasta area. Shooting wrapped last fall, and Deal is now staying in Weed, where he and film editor Bob Gordon are chiseling away at the laborious editing process – a process that Deal describes as “putting together the puzzle.” READ MORE >>> |
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Film Festival Seminar to Feature Hollywood Stars
Erin Gray and Tim O’Connor, who starred together in the television series “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” and each have a long list of TV and movie credits, will be in Mount Shasta to participate in a filmmaking seminar Oct. 12 as part of this year’s Mount Shasta International Film Festival. Jerry Alden Deal, the writer, director and producer of “Dreams Awake,” which was filmed in the Mount Shasta area, will lead the seminar from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the final day of the 2008 Film Festival at College of the Siskiyous. READ MORE >>> |
Mt. Shasta Herald
Deal’s ‘Dreams’ moves toward Big Screen
A small one-room outbuilding surrounded by tall pine trees on a hillside with a view of Mt. Shasta has served this summer as a film editing studio for Jerry Alden Deal’s “Dreams Awake.” A powerful Apple computer with a 4 terabyte hard drive contains all the raw footage for “Dreams,” much of which was filmed last year on and around Mt. Shasta. READ MORE >>> |
Mt. Shasta Herald
Film shot in Mt. Shasta featured Local TalentMt. Shasta Herald Director and writer Jerry Alden deal filmed “Dreams Awake” in Mount Shasta this summer using local citizens for the crew and three locals in speaking roles. Leonardo Gonzales, Joan Lucas and six year old Jessie Massari came to their roles from divergent backgrounds and had similarly divergent experiences on the set. READ MORE >>> |
On location for ‘Dreams Awake’
At a rented house above the city of Mount Shasta, Jerry Alden Deal paces back and forth waiting for the set to be ready amid a bewildering collection of equipment. “It’s a lot of hurry up and wait,” says Deal, the director, writer and co-producer of “Dreams Awake,” a movie now being filmed in the area. The plot of Dreams Awake involves a dysfunctional family of four from Los Angeles coming to Mount Shasta and having transformational experiences. READ MORE >>> |
Mt. Shasta Herald
Filmmaker says Mt. Shasta is a Character in ‘Dreams Awake’Mt. Shasta Herald “Dreams Awake” writer, producer and director Jerry Alden Deal said the title of the film he will be shooting on and around Mt. Shasta comes from a quote by Henry David Thoreau, “Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” “Part of the theme for the film is the lead character finding inner courage. She is not awake in her life,” Deal said of the mother played by Erin Gray of Buck Rogers, Baywatch and Silver Spoons fame. “In the film, she is on a journey of self discovery and she wakes up in the dream of her life.” READ MORE >>> |
Mount Shasta to ‘star’ in Film Shoot this Summer
MOUNT SHASTA – Ventura-based screenwriter/director Jerry Deal is really good at pitching his new film, “Dreams Awake,” in just one sentence. “It’s ‘Field of Dreams’ meets ‘The Da Vinci Code’ with a little ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ thrown in, all set in Mount Shasta within the context of a family,” he tells inquirers, adding, “At least that’s how you’d probably pitch it to Hollywood.” It sounds like a mouthful, but Deal, who’s shooting the film in several locations throughout Mount Shasta and Weed, said the film is primarily about self-discovery. READ MORE >>> |
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