SWEET DREAMS

A Nicolas Motte film

Image © ESA/NASA
LOGLINE
All Sarah wants is sleep, but her nights are plagued with dreams of ecocide.

SYNOPSIS
Sarah’s nights are plagued with dreams of ecocide. Her debilitating insomnia
caused by eco-anxiety impacts her personal and professional life to the point
where she loses her job and her boyfriend leaves her. Sarah’s disposition steadily
worsens until a point of crisis and a final revelation, which prompts her to take
action.

By approaching the subject of Climate Change through a personal lens, Sweet

Dreams gives a voice to the concerns of the young, highlighting a new breed of
mental health issue, all the while encouraging an existentialist
philosophy and the importance of taking action.
DIRECTOR’S
STATEMENT
Narrative films have only recently started to tackle the subject of
climate change. Shorts that do are generally documentaries. There
have been so many they’re losing their impact.

Sweet Dreams takes a different tack. It foregrounds and humanises

climate change through realistic personal drama. All the while
making plain the larger stakes at play, the film makes climate change
personal by exploring a new breed of mental health
problem: eco-anxiety.

Without preaching or reviewing the well-trodden facts, Sweet

Dreams tackles climate change from an emotional perspective with
striking imagery to hopefully bridge an empathy and understanding
gap between activists and their detractors who simply can’t
fathom why some people are prepared to take direct action and risk
arrest to make change, however small the part they play in it.
CAST
KATHERINE BOURBON
as Sarah
A graduate of Drama Studio London,
Katherine’s non verbal performance
is without equal - see her also in
“Foreign Bodies”. IMDB
SUNIL PATEL
as Interrogating Officer
A prolific voice actor, you have
definitey heard Sunny before. IMDB
JULIAN LLOYD PATTEN
as Boyfriend
A bona fide theatre actor who
excels at comedy, Julian’s portfolio
of shorts is rapidly expanding.
Definitely one to watch. IMDB
CAMERON BARCLAY
as Arresting Officer
A 2021 graduate, Cameron has be
treading the boards consistently
since theatre re-opened. He steals
the scene in his appearance. IMDB
GEORGIA GOODMAN
as Custody Officer
A regular of our screens, Georgia has
recently appeared in “Wednesday”
and has had a hugely varied TV ca-
reer. IMDB
ROSALIND ELEAZAR
as the Voice of the Hourglass
Recently seen alongside Gary
Oldman in Apple’s “Slow Horses”,
Rosalind has been going from
strength to strength. IMDB
THE STORY
They say to write what you know. Sweet Dreams draws on the personal
experience of its Writer-Director who was starting to despair in the face of the
nonchalance of family, friends, and other groups he’d approached about climate
change and a climate change themed film.

Written 6 weeks before Extinction Rebellion’s September 2021 protest,

producing Sweet Dreams was a race against the clock. Fortunately, the script
struck a chord with a number of professionals and film and TV amateurs without
whom it couldn’t have been made.

It also attracted a number of partners who were willing to give the self-
funded project assistance, ranging from The Peabody Trust who granted the use
of Holloway Prison, Blind Ltd, who contributed pro-bono VFX work, Wash, who
worked on the grade, Getty Images, and a number of Directors and
Cinematographers from Australia to the United States who contributed or heavily
discounted their work to illustrate climate change in the film.

As much as it is a short film, it is the product of an international team -

something its Writer-Director really didn’t expect.

Image © NASA
DIRECTOR
Nicolas Motte
IMDB
Working in Production and Direction, Nicolas entered the film and TV
industry through foreign film. He broadened his experience on staples of
UK TV like Casualty (BBC), before going on to work on high-end
productions. Notable credits include “Patrick Melrose” (Sky), “The Rook”
(Lionsgate/Starz), the second series of “Hanna” (Amazon), and “Suspicion”,
featuring Uma Thurman.
Nicolas’ first narrative short, The Green Man screened at 13 festivals. The
film has so far garnered a Best Film award and three nominations, one from
a BAFTA Cymru qualifying festival.
Lockdown gave Nicolas the time to write and develop his own ideas and
projects. He is especially passionate about socially engaged films that seek
to inspire change.
PRODUCER
Consuelo Meseguer
IMDB
Consuelo started her career at the BBC, working both in Production and
Script Development. Since then, she has worked on a variety of
productions, including TV Drama, Children’s TV, Docudrama and Feature
film. Her latest credits include Bryan Elsley’s “Kiss Me First” (Channel 4/
Netflix), indie Feature “The Corrupted”, starring Sam Claflin, Naomi Ackie
and Timothy Spall, multilingual Netflix Originals drama series, “Criminal” and
David Farr’s second series of “Hanna”.
Over lockdown, Consuelo completed a Masters in Script Development at
the National Film and Television School and progressed into
development and executive production since then.
She is currently the Creative Manager for Netflix feature films in the
Spanish and Portuguese territories.
SWEET DREAMS
RUNNING TIME
11 minutes

WRITER & DIRECTOR

Nicolas Motte
PRODUCERS
Consuelo Meseguer & Nicolas Motte
CONTACT
nmotte@hotmail.fr
+44 (0) 7595 538 821
CREDITS
WRITER & DIRECTOR
Nicolas Motte
PRODUCERS
Consuelo Meseguer & Nicolas Motte
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Bojan Brbora
EDITOR
Roddy McDonald
COMPOSERS
Sylvia Strand & Jonathan Gregory