Miguel Sapochnik (Director of The Dreamer) studied film-making at Bournemouth College of Art.

His graduation piece was screened by Film Four and shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival. He works independently as a scriptwriter and has directed three short films. He co-wrote with Ivor Powell The Dreamer, a short film that is an exploration of what it is to be human through telling the story of a clone awaiting termination.

Ivor Powell has a long trajectory in film-making. He started his career as Stanley Kubrick assistant in 2001. He went on to become Ridley Scott's producer on The Duelists; Blade Runner; and Alien.

The Dreamer:

In a dark vision of the future where emotionally suppressed human clones
are mass manufactured and discarded for the latest model, a male and female
clone share a last look as they wait for termination. Against the callous
inhumanity of the termination plant workers, the woman is electrocuted and
dropped into a furnace before the man is hooked up. But the circuit fails,
and in the desperate moments before his death we see that he is not a
soulless creation. 

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