Beautiful Dreamer

A dying mother travels at near-light speed, bending time to watch her baby daughter grow up.

Beautiful Dreamer is a sci-fi, time travel tale set in a striking near future world of drones, robots, holograms and transport pods. But it’s also a personal story. A mother, facing a terminal disease, leaves her baby daughter and travels into space at near-light speed. Using relativity, she is able to stretch her final two years over her daughter’s entire lifetime but is only able to visit her daughter for one night every seven years. The visits are sometimes sad and sometimes beautiful. The daughter reaches her own mother’s age and then passes far beyond that while the mother is left stranded at the same age she was when she first left. The characters are torn apart by the same technology that unites them - briefly - over a lifetime.

Director: David Gaddie
Starring: Jo Armeniox, Natalie Smith and Lynn Cohen
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Awards

Winner - Best Sci-Fi Short - Sene Festival of Film and Music
Winner - Best SciFi- Juggernaut SciFi / Fantasy Film Festival
Finalist - NanoCon Int Science Fiction Film Festival
Honorable Mention - Boston Science Fiction Film Festival
Runner Up - Best Fantasy Film - Miami Science Fiction Film Festival
Best Short Script Cthulhi - Other Worlds Austin
Best Short Actress Cthulhi - Other Worlds Austin
Festival Director’s Award for Best Film – New York Short Film Festival
1st Place Science Fiction – Dragon Con Independent Film Festival
Best Short Film - Unreal Film Festival
Best FX - GenreBlast Film Festival
Best Short Film - New York Los Angeles FF
Platinum Remi for Science Fiction - WorldFest Houston
Nominated - Best Post Production - NY Lift-Off Film Festival

Selections

Dances With Films
Fantasia International Film Festival
Edmonton International Film Festival
LA Indie Fest
HollyShorts Film Festival
Miami Science Fiction Film Festival
Tri-Cities International Film Festival
Worldcon 75
Aesthetica Short Film Festival
Utopia Film Festival
San Jose Short Film Festival
Real to Reel International Film Festival
Stony Brook Film Festival
Big River Film Festival
Berlin Short Film Festival
Little Rock Picture Show
NewFilmmakers New York
Erie International Film Festival
Sedona International Film Festival
Julien Dubuque International Film Festival
Garden State Film Festival
New Hope Film Festival
SOMA Film Festival
Hackney Attic Screenings
WorldCon 75 Helsinki
TRIFI Film Festival
Snake Alley Festival of Film

Cast: AfterPartyVFX and David Gaddie

Tags: Science Fiction, Ken Liu, Relativity, Time Travel, girl. women, female, emotional, mom, special effects, time dilation, human relationships and space travel