RECEPTION
DREAMING ARIZONA / 2022
In the Arizona desert, along route 66, we find an all American small-town, Winslow. At the town’s high school, we meet five teenagers, each with their own dream of the future. Like all teenagers around the world, they are in a transition where they have to shape their own lives, find a way out of childhood and create a new identity as adults.
Their desire for freedom is strong, and there are consequences when parents, society or their own conscience restrict it. Film director, Jon Bang Carlsen, examines the teenagers’ basic need to stage their own lives as the documentary imperceptibly seeps into fiction.
Together with the main characters, the director has created some imaginary life paths and thereby our teenagers comment on their own situation, the audiences’ anticipations and the director's vision.
Writer & Director
JON BANG CARLSEN
Producers
HEIDI ELISE CHRISTENSEN
SIGNE BYRGE SØRENSEN
Edited by
FRANCESC SITGES-SARDÀ
NICOLAS N. STAFFOLANI
Music by
STEN SHERIPOV
Director of Photography
ERIK PÕLLUMAA