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Dream-Makers
Short Film (Full Length) – 1992
This fantastical Rob Sarkies short film unravels largely inside a girl's brain, where an imperious 'dream director' (Louise Petherbridge) and her technicians create a new nightmare, using an advert for Germo toilet cleaner as inspiration. Suzie (Carlee Brook) is so scared she avoids using her grandparents' loo. Meanwhile her subconscious dream team are planning their best production yet. Winner of an award at an experimental festival in Madrid, Dream-Makers mixes horror, comedy and puppetry. A number of the Dream-Makers team reconvened for even more ambitious short film Signing Off, and 1999 hit movie Scarfies.
Kill the lights! Lose the extras!– The Dream Director (Louise Petherbridge) prepares her 'set' for the night's bad dream
Key Cast & Crew
See all 30 credits
Produced by
Nightmare Productions
Acknowledgements
Produced with the assistance of the Creative Film and Video Fund of the Queen Elizabeth ll Arts Council, the NZ Film Commission and Television New Zealand
Music
'Germo' advertising jingle composed by Graeme Perkins and sung by Colette Chapman
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