Dreamcatcher

2015
TV-MA
1h 44m

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7.1/10

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Crime Documentary Drama Family

Takes us into a hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking through the eyes of one of its survivors, Brenda Myers-Powell.Takes us into a hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking through the eyes of one of its survivors, Brenda Myers-Powell.Takes us into a hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking through the eyes of one of its survivors, Brenda Myers-Powell.

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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

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Awards
- 2 wins & 7 nominations total

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While making the film, Crack House USA in Chicago in 2009, writer, producer Lisa Stevens met Stephanie Daniels-Wilson, founder of the Dreamcatcher Foundation. Stephanie and her Dreamcatcher co-founder, Brenda Myers-Powell, introduced Stevens to their work with young girls and women who were victims of sex trafficking. Stevens spent the next three year developing a relationship with Brenda and Stephanie. For Stevens, this relationship produced a deeper understanding of the work they do, which lead to the development of a treatment for a feature documentary. Teddy Leifer joined Stevens in 2012 to raise the production funds. Kim Longinotto came on board in 2013 to shoot and direct. Stevens and Longinotto spent an intense ten weeks on location filming in Chicago. Over the ten weeks, Longinotto shot about 27 hours of footage. Post production commenced at Splice Post Production in London. Editor Ollie Huddleston was engaged to work with Longinotto to cut the film. Stevens provided editorial guidance and key music and archive throughout the edit.

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8/10

Hard lives

'Dreamcatcher' introduces us to an astonishingly grim world of poverty, drugs, and systematic abusiveness on the hard streets of Chicago; and also to Brenda, a former prostitute, who now devotes her life to trying to save the next generation from ruin. She makes an interesting character: her style of speaking has its similarities to that of evangelical preachers, although she appears completely genuine in her message combining self-forgiveness and practical help. The really shocking thing here is quite how decayed the community is: that stories which you might expect would be aberrations appears to be normal for the girls in this film. Indeed, prostitution is clearly a symptom, but in no way the cause, for a society gone badly wrong, and it's scary how damaged the girls already are before they've even left school. Brenda gives them (and us) some hope, but overall the film, though important and compelling, is fundamentally a depressing one.