Rehearsing a Dream
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Country USA | Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 2006 Genres Documentary, Short Film, Indie film, Biographical film Nominations Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject Similar movies Recycled Life (2006), The Saviour (2005), My Country - My Country (2006), The Blood of Yingzhou District (2006), West Bank Story (2005) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rehearsing a Dream is a short documentary directed and produced by four time Academy Award nominees Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon. Cinematography by Buddy Squires and Steve McCarthy, edited by Nancy Baker and a Production of Simon & Goodman Picture Company. The film premiered on HBO in August 2007 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
The film follows a group of gifted 17-year-old performing and visual artists at the YoungArts program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts in Miami. The young artists as spend a week learning from mentors like Mikhail Baryshnikov, Vanessa L. Williams, Jacques d'Amboise and Michael Tilson Thomas. The NFAA has for the past 27 years been helping the country's best high-school senior art students with their annual YoungArts Week in Miami and by scholarships. Over 7500 students apply for about 150 spots in all arts disciplines.