Dancing on a Dry Salt Lake
 OVERVIEW
Language: English
Country of Origin: USA
Running Time: 123 Minutes
Medium: HD Video Master
Rights: All Rights Available/Dancing Coyote, LLC
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CAST & CREW
Director: Dominique De Fazio
Music : R Carlos Nakai
Director of Photography : Bruce Alan Greene
Producer: Dominique De Fazio
Co-Producer :Emile Razpopov
Production Designer : Samo Tusak
A HIDDEN MOON Production
Editor: Ben Callahan, Dominique De Fazio
Cast: Dominique DE FAZIO, Nicolas COSTER, Barry LIVINGSTON, Annelie HARRYSSON, Aldred MONTOYA, David LEISURE, Suzanne SNYDER, Danny PARDO, Petra LAMY, Sabrina SERRI, Anouschka SARAFZADE, Linda CHANG, and Gabriele VITALI.
Writer: Dominique De Fazio
Producer's Representative: Ostrow and Company
REVIEW
John Muir Gold Award – Feature Film
2009 Yosemite International Film Festival
Award of Excellence – Feature Film
2009 INDIE Distribution Fest
Award of Excellence – Feature Film
2010 Accolade Competition
Award of Excellence – Director (Dominique De Fazio)
2010 Accolade Competition
Award of Excellence – Lead Actor (Dominique De Fazio)
2010 Accolade Competition
Best Film – Feature Film (Comedy)
2010 Mountain Film Festival
Silver Lei Crystal Award – Feature Film
2010 Honolulu International Film Festival
Merit of Awareness Award – Feature Film
2010 Awareness Festival
Golden Palm Award – Feature Film
2010 Mexico International Film Festival
Award of Merit – Narrative Feature
2010 Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood
Nominated for Best Film – International Feature Film
2010 Swansee Bay Film Festival, Wales
SYNOPSIS
Dancing on a Dry Salt Lake is a serious story of one person’s journey to enlightenment. And, it is a comedy.
WARNER DE SANTIS, a cosmologist obsessed with hearing God back in time at the Origin of the Universe, disrupts a press conference and gets himself fired from NASA.
The same day his wife leaves him saying, “You’ve never listened to anyone but yourself for years.” He drives east from Los Angeles, toward the desert, in search of a clear night sky.
On the edge of Searles Dry Lake, he tries to drive his car to the moon. He does get airborne for about three seconds; then he drops into the dry lakebed, about two metres below.
Warner awakens with minor injuries in a mining town named after a mineral, TRONA.
While waiting for his car to be fixed, he encounters RICHARD, a Native American who
tells that his people, the Kawaiisu, consider the edge of the dry lake to be a kind of
spiritual highway along which “Spirit Messengers” pass looking for the One to ask to do
a special act. “Old talk says”, Richard adds, “that the Origin of the Universe lies
somewhere around the dry lake.”
Warner encounters a series of individuals that he believes might be “Messengers.” He
takes what they say as instructions, and heads out into the desert “on assignment.”
There, one very starry night, Warner finds the place of Origin, slides into the “Present,”
and begins to hear in all the ordinary things around him, close at hand, the presence of
the divine that had eluded him in the distance of space and time. |
