• Source: Dreambuilders

    • Dreambuilders (Danish: Drømmebyggerne) is a 2020 Danish computer-animated comedy fantasy film directed by Kim Hagen Jensen, from a screenplay by Søren Grinderslev Hansen.


    Plot


    Minna is a young girl who lives out in the rural country with her father, John, her mother Karen having left them to pursue her career as a singer,but Karen died from a car accident at an early age. Minna struggles to adjust to the arrival of John's new wife, Helene, and her daughter Jenny, who regularly quarrels with Minna. While dreaming one night, Minna discovers a hole in the sky and notices blue creatures controlling her dream, who abruptly wake her up. Minna investigates the following night, discovering the blue creatures are Dreambuilders, responsible for designing peoples' dreams, and meets Gaff, her Dreambuilder. While hiding from the Inspector, Minna is knocked off her dream stage and into her father's, inadvertently altering his dream when she hands him a can of anchovies instead of the cake as was scripted.
    Waking up, Minna discovers that, due to tampering with his dream, John now loves anchovies, and realizes she can influence people through their dreams. When Jenny threatens to have Minna's hamster, Viggo, taken to an animal shelter, Minna appeals to Gaff to help change Jenny's mind. Gaff reluctantly agrees and the pair interfere with Jenny's dream to include a mechanical, giant-sized Viggo. While in the dream world, Minna learns that if a dreamer is out of their dream stage for too long, they cease to exist. Upon waking up, Minna finds that Jenny has now taken a liking to Viggo, but is distraught to learn that Jenny has been mocking Minna's fashion sense to her Instagram followers. Resolving to fix Jenny, Minna again interferes with Jenny's dream, attempting to get her to like Minna's sweater. She's nearly caught by the Inspector, but manages to escape with the help of Milo, a former Dreambuilder who was demoted to janitor after inadvertently destroying a dream stage by altering the script.
    Jenny panics upon learning she's wearing Minna's sweater and is wrought with anxiety at her bizarre changes in behavior, causing Helene to decide to move them back to the city. While packing, Jenny discovers Minna's journal containing images of her dream. Realizing Minna is somehow tampering with her dreams, Jenny threatens retaliation and gets Helene to reconsider moving. Jenny deliberately invokes jealousy from Minna by bonding with John, causing Minna to lash out at her family. Furious, Minna constructs a nightmare for Jenny, taking advantage of her arachnophobia by terrorizing her with spiders, including a mechanical, giant-sized one. However, the dream stage collapses, and Jenny plunges into the Dream Trash, where used sets are discarded, much to Minna's horror. The Inspector blames Gaff for the travesty and demotes him to janitor. In the real world, Jenny is placed in a coma. Remorseful, Minna reconciles with John and resolves to save Jenny.
    In her dream, Minna meets her mother, who attempts to get her to stay in bed, but sees through the charade and discovers her to be an actor. With help from Gaff, Minna evades the Inspector and enters the Dream Trash, recovering Jenny. However, the tower leading out of the Dream Trash is destroyed, stranding them there. While fleeing from the out-of-control mechanical spider, Minna and Jenny hide in the ruined set of one of Jenny's former dreams, where Minna learns that Jenny's father left her and Helene years ago, blaming Jenny for the move. The two reconcile and find an old dream controller, using it to levitate several large objects to act as a ladder to one of the dream stages. They're pursued by the spider, but with help from Gaff, Minna manages to deactivate it. Jenny begins to fade to being away from her dream stage for too long, but Minna, Gaff and the Inspector manage to return her to her stage and wake her up in time. In the real world, Jenny awakens from her coma, to Minna's delight.
    Minna, Jenny, John and Helene manage to come together as a family. In the dream world, Gaff, reinstated as a Dreambuilder, begins construction on a new dream.


    Voice cast


    Emilie Koppel as Minna
    Caroline Vedel Larsen as Jenny
    Rasmus Botoft as John / Gnaven dream builder / Milo
    Martin Buch as Gaff
    Ditte Hansen as Helene
    Mia Lerdam as Clothing Salesman / Social Media Girls
    Stig Hoffmeyer as Inspector
    Alberte Winding as Karen Mitchels
    Kim Hagen Jensen as Jenny's father
    Morten Kamuk Andersen as Dream Builder # 2 / Actor # 1-3


    Release


    The film was released in theatres in Denmark on 6 February 2020 by First Lady Film, where it received 69,991 admissions in Danish cinemas.


    = Box office

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    The film gross grossed $4 million worldwide. The top grossing countries were Australia ($689K), Germany ($631K) and the United Kingdom ($590K).


    = Home media

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    The film was released straight-to-video in the United States from Shout! Factory on 10 August 2021 as a DVD/Blu-ray and a stand-alone DVD on 24 August 2021.


    = Critical response

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    The film received generally mixed to average reviews from critics. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 55% based on 11 reviews.


    References




    External links


    Dreambuilders at IMDb

  • Source: Dream Builders

    • Dream Builders is an alternative education program in the city of Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada. Dream Builders is an accredited school that allows students to enroll and work around their lives while maintaining an education. Some students are referred to Dream Builders, while some choose to attend the school freely. Dream Builders offers grades 6 through 9. The second part of the school is much like High School with grades 10 through 12. The school is open to people under the age of 21, but students who enroll at the age of 20 are permitted to attend the school until their education is complete.
    A second component to Dream Builders is the work experience component where students attend a class where they are taught work skills such as safe food handling and in the end they are set up with jobs.
    Dream Builders is very open and willing to work around its students. Students who work can pick up their school work and drop it off. It is much like correspondence or "distance learning". Dream Builders allows young parents to attend the school and allows them to bring their children. The school also offers a free ride to school and a free lunch.
    Dream Builders is backed by the Catholic School division and by Native Canadian teachings. The school has a spiritual and holistic component to it with several field trips that allow students to experience the culture and teachings of aboriginal people.
    Dream Builders has the students and teachers addressing each other on a first name basis. The teachers also preach a no yelling policy as well as a drug-free policy.
    Graduating students formerly had a ceremony at either the Yorkton Regional High School or Sacred Heart High School; Dream Builders began hosting its own graduation ceremony in 2007. Many of the students who have graduated from Dream Builders have gone on to post-secondary education.


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