An Unfinished Dream:  

The Inspiration 

"Below is a student studying for midterms while advocating for the DREAM ACT.  She came as a young child and found out when she turned 18 that she was different than her friends."

 A statement from Andrea:
 
I first learned of AB540 in college when my friend told me she was unable to apply for financial aid despite her financial need for college. I became more involved after meeting with many AB540 students at my university.  I learned about their stories and saw the struggles they had to overcome first hand. Some sold their cars just to pay for tuition, others commuted for more than two hours and worked three jobs.

I have found inspirations through students that with so much less than me have made it to the university and are fighting for others who should not have to go through what they went through.  These people have strengthened my resolve to help those less fortunate and shown me how privileged I have been throughout my life.

This is why I believe that the greatest contribution I could make to this society is to spread the word about their struggles to make the world a better place through film and thus this documentary began.

I believe that film can be used for humanitarian purposes and that it can serve good to society. I admire its ability to reach the world and expose the issues that are not known by everyone. The awareness this film raises and helps to enlighten and motivate people as it has for me, because if I can help them with what little I have I know others can become great allies as long as their learn about the struggles of AB540 students.

With this documentary we will empower students, mobilize allies and empower the movement to pass the Dream Act!

Special Thanks!

To all the wonderful individual supporters of our project.

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United WE DREAM                      www.DREAMACTivist.org

NDLON                                      www.NDLON.org

Producciones Cimarrón               www.Cimarrones.org

“Centro de Comunicación Comunitaria” El Sereno, CA

Solidarity Ink 

www.evillustrations.com
www.myspace.com/evillustrations        

UCLA Labor Center  Los Angeles, Ca

University California Los Angeles

NILC  National Immigration Law Center

UCLA NAID Center

Underground Undergrads

Brooklyn & Boyle Art & Literary Salon

ACantar Films                        www.youtube.com/ACantarFilms

 AMO              Director/Visionary

     Andrea has been studying film since high school where she learned how to edit clips for the school news and now she is a film minor at UCLA. She aspires to create awareness in today's society about issues that deeply affect the community but are not well known or discussed.

 EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: 

ACantar Films

youtube.com/ACantarFilms

Satie Gossett    

Consulting Producer/Post Production

     Satie  began his film career re-creating favorite movie scenes from Star Wars with his childhood friends and a Super8 camera.  He went on graduate with Film Studies and TV, Radio and Film degrees from the prestigious Newhouse School at Syracuse University.

    While working for Academy-Award winner Louis Gossett, Jr, Satie became renowned for his filmmaking skills and was granted unprecedented access to political happenings, Hollywood events and philanthropic ventures. Two documentaries, one non-profit organization and scores of scripts later, Satie created Goose Egg Productions.

www.gooseeggproductions.com

 Jesse Acosta   Consulting Producer

    Jesse Acosta is a producer and co-founder of Suspect Entertainment.  Jesse has produced several feature films including the upcoming film Platinum Illusions. 

Special Thanks:

Dr. Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda 

North American Integration & Development Center

NAID @ UCLA

 Production Crew

Camera:  Eduardo Lomeli

Bio coming soon!

Assistant Camera:  Gerardo Estrada

Bio coming soon!

Music Producer:  Israel Lomeli

Bio coming soon!