ELCX: The Planet Funk Story NEW TRAILER
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Title: HOUSE OF DREAMS
Show time: Saturday 4/21 @ 7:15 p.m.
Location: AMC 30 at Dunvale 7:15 pm showing- one night only.Â
Country: USA
Synopsis:
A multicultural dance studio, Planet Funk Academy, located in an upper-class Houston neighborhood, must fight a campaign to shut it down at City Hall. In the heart of the film, the fireworks are set off by real life confrontation between Dancers and City Council personal in dramatic courtroom like settings.Â
Amazing dance scenes, from hip-hop to ballroom are integrated throughout the film, as heartfelt stories from the dancers themselves vividly portray their struggles to prevail against overwhelming odds of cultural differences, powerful enemies and the city legal system itself.Â
Event:  40th Worldfest Independent Film Festival April 20-29, 2007
"Before there was Sundance or SXSW, before there was Toronto or Tribeca, there was WorldFest!" The festival that gave first honors to Spielberg, Lucas, Ang Lee, Ridley Scott, David Lynch, The Coen Brothers, Brian De Palma and Atom Egoyan!
TicketsÂ
www.worldfest.org or call planet funk 713-802-1772 to purchase over the phone
Director: Shawn S. Welling
Producer: Roger Scott Budge
Associate Producer: Michael Berry
Editor: Shawn S. Welling
Screenwriter: Shawn S. Welling
Director of Photography: Roger Scott Budge
Music: Shawn S. Welling
Cast:  Shawn Welling, Lindsay Slott, Lenton Allen, Liz Hewett ,Tesia Truitt, Joel Martinez, Shaina Perry, Pat Garrett, Mario Jaramillo, Westfield H.S. Chamber Choir and Michael Berry
Print Source: Shawn Welling, Welling Films LLC,
5731 Logan Lane, Houston, TX 77007
Tel: General info and tickets
713.802.1772
Tel: Distribution info only
281 772 4277
Email: [email protected]
Review: Texas A@M battalion (Samhitha Murthy)
House of Dreams: The Planet Funk Story
House of Dreams: The Planet Funk Story premiered as a work in progress on the evening of April 23, 2006, but had audiences applauding all the way through in a sold out stadium theatre. The film returns to AMC as a full feature for a World Premier April 21, 2007. As a work in progress last year the film features an incredibly powerful, original music score that effectively spices up drab scenes of courtroom testimony, laments the prejudices that become a huge issue in the film, and celebrates the positivity of an art culture that prevails in the end.
This years full feature promises a new beginning and end with polished court room scenes that have aggressive courtroom camera angles and more stunning dance scenes.
The film, produced by Planet Funk Academy owner Shawn Welling, chronicles a recent struggle by the Houston dance studio, as it fought to stay afloat despite heavy opposition by certain neighbors and city personnel.
Like the Westfield High School choir, which is featured in the film, the documentary beautifully blends the stories and voices of so many individuals to create a message that sings out for Planet Funk's right to exist. As an urban dance studio, Planet Funk Academy is shown as a sanctuary for those that cannot go elsewhere to stay out of trouble, as a temple for so many kids whose religion is dance and as a gold mine for those who are impoverished, save for an extraordinary gift of dance.
On "Good Morning America," Diane Sawyer referred to them as "the legendary Planet Funk," and Charles Gibson stated that "their energy is infectious." Watch this film, and you will have no reasons to disagree.
