"BERKELEY, Calif. -- As a student at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, writer and director Alex Woo's goal was to make an animated feature film. "Every film student and every aspiring filmmaker, what they want to do is they want to make a feature film on the biggest scale. That was always the dream," Woo shares. After partnering with fellow animators Stanley Moore and Tim Hahn, Woo started Kuku Studios in Berkeley, California."
""I spent ten years at Pixar, and I really think of my time there as a master class or a Ph.D. in storytelling. Almost everything I learned about storytelling, I learned from my time there. I got to work with such incredible filmmakers. I worked with Brad Bird on Ratatouille and Andrew Stanton on Wall-E. John Lasseter on Cars 2," said Woo."
""We want to tell stories that make people cry tears of laughter because they're laughing so hard and then tears of pathos because they're so deeply moved by the characters in the story," Woo said. "In Your Dreams" follows two siblings, Stevie and Elliot, who discover a magical book that allows them to enter their dreams. While in the dream world, they try to find the Sandman, hoping he can help solve the troubles in their parents' marriage."
Alex Woo co-founded Kuku Studios in Berkeley with fellow animators Stanley Moore and Tim Hahn and spent nine years developing his first feature, In Your Dreams. The film follows siblings Stevie and Elliot who discover a magical book that lets them enter dreams as they seek the Sandman to help their parents' marriage. Woo spent ten years at Pixar, calling that time a master class in storytelling and citing collaborations with filmmakers like Brad Bird, Andrew Stanton, and John Lasseter. The project aims to blend broad laughter with deep emotional resonance and reflects Woo's Bay Area filmmaking roots.
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