A Dream Is What You Wake Up From is a 1978 American film that combines documentary and narrative techniques to tell the stories of two black families in the United States.
The film focuses on the intersection of race, gender, and wealth, comparing and contrasting the lives of a poor Harlem family and a more affluent family in the New Jersey suburbs.
[1] The blending of documentary and narrative filmmaking makes it deliberately "unclear"[1] which scenes involve "professional" versus "non-professional" actors (as they are called in the film's credits).
This style is said to be inspired by Cuban director Sara Gómez,[2] whom the film is dedicated to along with Mozambican activist Josina Machel.
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