Dreamcatcher

Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award at Sundance, Kim Longinotto’s Dreamcatcher is a revealing and inspirational portrait of Brenda Myers-Powell, a woman who, after 25 years as a drug-addicted prostitute, decided to change her life following a violent encounter with a john. Myers-Powell founded The Dreamcatcher Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping at-risk women and girls who are desperate to escape their personal cycles of violence and prostitution but who feel that prostitution is their only option to survive. We follow Myers-Powell as she hears one harrowing tale after another and not only lends an understanding ear, but shows them a way out of the same dire circumstances. (97 mins., DCP)

Please join us for a post-screening panel with Brenda Myers-Powell, Stephanie Daniels-Wilson, and Homer King (all with the Dreamcatcher Foundation and all featured in the film) and Dr. Jacquelyn Meshelemiah, Associate Professor in Ohio State’s College of Social Work.

Dreamcatcher is on tour this fall with generous support from The Fledgling Fund in collaboration with Women Make Movies and the British Council.