Dreaming American - Playing at Tribeca Performing Arts Center. November 6 at 7pm Synopsis: After escaping a dangerous past a young man fights to keep his body, his dignity and his dream alive. Survival is the first order of business in New York City and when success comes within his grasp he finds himself up against an uncaring immigration bureaucracy. Based on a true story, Dreaming American is a humorous, sad, and always compelling story of courage, living by ones wits, and the struggle to make it in America. Award-winning editor Lee Percy just completed Dreaming American, which he wrote and directed. The 24-minute dramatic film chronicles the struggles of a young Albanian man in New York. Based on a true story Percy was gratified by all of the talented people who were inspired to volunteer their time and help bring the film to life. Percy is currently editing Kimberly Pierce’s “Carrie” for MGM and recently worked on Columbia Pictures “Salt’” with Angelina Jolie directed by Philip Noyce. Lee originally trained as an actor at the Julliard School. He finds this background invaluable and considers himself lucky to have edited three films which won top acting Oscars: Hillary Swank for “Boys Don’t Cry,” Jeremy Irons for “Reversal of Fortune,” and William Hurt for “Kiss of the Spiderwoman,” Percy also edited “Maria Full of Grace,” for which Catalina Sandino Moreno was nominated as best actress. He edited several movies for HBO Films and received Emmy nominations for two them: “Grey Gardens,” with Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore and “Taking Chance,” with Kevin Bacon. Percy took home the Emmy for the latter. All three of the actors won multiple honors. Percy was also recognized by his peers when he received an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award (by editors for editors) for Grey Gardens. He was nominated for “Taking Chance” at the same time. He won his first Eddie for HBO’s “Against the Wall,” one of several projects he did with the late John Frankenheimer. Percy was also nominated for the HBO film “Mrs. Harris” with Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley. Percy has worked with director Barbet Schroeder on such films as “Before and After” with Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson, “Kiss of Death” with Nicolas Cage and Samuel Jackson, “Single White Female,” with Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Lee, as well as “Reversal of Fortune” which starred Glenn Close with Irons. Percy’s other credits include Henry Bean’s “The Believer,” winner of the 2001 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, as well as films with Harold Ramis, Kathryn Bigelow and Jesse Nelson. Currently hard at work preparing to direct several features Lee looks forward to making Dreaming American as his first. Barbet Schroeder (Executive Producer), Click here: Barbet Schroeder - IMDb, is a seminal figure in film history, having ushered in the French New Wave of cinema by producing such films as Claires Knee and My Night at Mauds Later, as director of films in Hollywod, he was nominated by the Academy Awards for Reversal of Fortune, and had box office hits with Single White Female, Murder by Numbers, Barfly, Desperate Measures, and many others. Nancy Schreiber (Cinematographer), Click here: Nancy Schreiber - IMDb, has photographed over 70 films! Her expertise made short work of the set-ups and layered each scene with her rich cinematic sensibility. Giancarlo Esposito, Emmy nominated for this year, Click here: Giancarlo Esposito - IMDb, Audiences cant seem to get enough of this versatile actors work since he began life onstage at the tender age of 8. They have enjoyed his recurring roles on many hit series, including Law and Order, Homicide and, currently, AMC’s Breaking Bad. An Obie award winner and one of the founder members of the Atlantic Theater Ensemble, a theater company created by David Mamet and William H. Macy. Esposito has lent his talents to such films as The Usual Suspects and several of Spike Lees films, including Do The Right Thing. Praq Rado, lead actor, brings his passion for creative freedom and his hopes for fulfillment in the U.S. to his debut film role in Dreaming American. Audiences have taken note of this hot new talent whose good looks are surpassed by his expression of the characters inner struggle to make his dreams come true.
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