Life Could Be a Dream

GIVEAWAY To celebrate the national release of Life Could Be A Dream, The Man Cave and Life Could Be a Dream will give away double passes every day for the next 5 days. To enter:     1    Follow @lifecouldbeadreamofficial     2    Follow @themancave_aus     3    Tag two friends you would love to take to the cinema Winners will receive a double pass to see Life Could Be A Dream at participating cinemas during our national release. Every ticket helps support the incredible work of The Man Cave, with $1 from each ticket going directly to their programs with young men. Let’s fill cinemas, start conversations and help this small but potent Australian film reach the people who need it. In cinemas nationally now. #LifeCouldBeADream #TheManCave #AustralianFilm #InCinemasNow #SupportAustralianFilm IndependentFilm CinemaRelease

Story of Hope - Life Could Be A Dream

Working with Meg White on Life Could Be A Dream who won best cinematography for a feature film under 5 million from the Australian Cinematography Association NSW So well deserved

Maeve Dermody discusses her character Sarah relationship with her son.

GIVEAWAY To celebrate the national release of Life Could Be A Dream, The Man Cave and Life Could Be a Dream will give away double passes every day for the next 5 days. To enter:     1    Follow @lifecouldbeadreamofficial     2    Follow @themancave_aus     3    Tag two friends you would love to take to the cinema Winners will receive a double pass to see Life Could Be A Dream at participating cinemas during our national release. Every ticket helps support the incredible work of The Man Cave, with $1 from each ticket going directly to their programs with young men. Let’s fill cinemas, start conversations and help this small but potent Australian film reach the people who need it. In cinemas nationally now. #LifeCouldBeADream #TheManCave #AustralianFilm #InCinemasNow #SupportAustralianFilm IndependentFilm CinemaRelease

GIVEAWAY To celebrate the national release of Life Could Be A Dream, The Man Cave and Life Could Be a Dream will give away double passes every day for the next 5 days. To enter:     1    Follow @lifecouldbeadreamofficial     2    Follow @themancave_aus     3    Tag two friends you would love to take to the cinema Winners will receive a double pass to see Life Could Be A Dream at participating cinemas during our national release. Every ticket helps support the incredible work of The Man Cave, with $1 from each ticket going directly to their programs with young men. Let’s fill cinemas, start conversations and help this small but potent Australian film reach the people who need it. In cinemas nationally now. #LifeCouldBeADream #TheManCave #AustralianFilm #InCinemasNow #SupportAustralianFilm IndependentFilm CinemaRelease

Today my film, Life Could Be A Dream, hits cinemas nationally. I have been asked every day why I made this film now. Because the stories we inherit about love shape us long before crisis arrives. They tell us what a good relationship looks like. What we should want. What we should endure. For many of us, those ideas do not just influence our choices. They become part of our identity. So when something begins to fracture, it is not always visible. And it is not always easy to name. I am a filmmaker, so I think a lot about what it takes to truly reach people. Not just inform them, but move them. Awareness matters. But I have wondered whether awareness alone is enough. Awareness tells us what we should think. Storytelling has the ability to shape what we feel. And it is feeling, not information, that often creates change. That idea sat at the heart of Life Could Be A Dream. I was thinking about the person watching from the couch who does not yet have the language for what they are experiencing. I thought about a friend wondering why she keeps going back. I thought about my teenage son, absorbing his first ideas about love. That is who I made this film for. Life Could Be A Dream is, in many ways, a love story coming undone. At its centre is a mother and son, and what she is willing to risk for their futures. I did not want to make a film that tells people what to think. I wanted to make one that allows them to feel, and perhaps quietly recognise something. Because leaving is not always just leaving a person. It can be leaving a version of yourself you believed you were meant to become. And that is a much harder thing to let go of. The film itself is not a solution. It is a starting point. Cultural change does not happen through instruction. It happens when people begin to see themselves differently. So if you are reading this, take it as an invitation to come and sit in it together. I do not know exactly what this film will do. But I do believe in what storytelling can do. It can reach someone before they have the words. It can stay with them after the credits roll. And sometimes, that is where change begins. Life Could Be A Dream is in cinemas nationally from today

Full review in link @lifecouldbeadreamofficial

Opens today!!! To anyone we have ever known, please tell 10 people you know to see our small but potent film this weekend and give it time to breathe. The Man Cave receives a contribution from every ticket sold, supporting the incredible work they do with young men across Australia. Independent Australian films live or die by their opening weekend. Every ticket, every post, every conversation genuinely matters. Thank you for carrying this film with us. Life Could Be a Dream , in cinemas nationally from today.