waking up in a dream
An eight-year-old girl carries her grandmother's journal through Brooklyn, encountering voices searching for meaning beyond survival. Shot over three years, this documentary-narrative hybrid renders everyday experience as a meditation on death, time, and the space between memories and dreams.
CURRENTLY IN POST-PRODUCTION
Experimental feature & a/v installation
color and black & white, 1.50, 2026
a film by by Jamil McGinnis & Pat Heywood
SUPPORT
2021 Rooftop Films Filmmakers Fund (Camera Grant)
2021 Thessaloniki Int’l Film Festival (Short to Feature Lab)
2022 HamptonsFilm (Screenwriters Lab)
2022 Gotham (Project Market Week)
2024 IDA Fiscal Sponsorship
2024 Rockaway Film Festival (multiscreen installation)
[FKA In Search of Time]
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