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"Dorme is a beautiful, poetic journey into the nighttime innocence of young dreams."

"Dorme is a wonderful, captivating and exquisitely designed film. Binsfeld has gone beyond the average children's story, creating a sparkling, fantastical drama for all ages."

[In Dorme]Symbolism is layered throughout.

The film is already being used as part of poet Terry Ehret's Santa Rosa Junior College class "Dreams and Inward Journeys." Sandwiched between Stephen King's "The Symbolic Language of Dreams" and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan," "Dorme" is used to explore "how the unconscious reveals itself in our conscious life."

“Sylvia Binsfeld of Petaluma has made a short film, titled “Dorme”… “Dorme” - the story of a little boy’s dream, filled with dazzling computerized effects – has been accepted by Tribeca, San Francisco, the San Diego Children’s Film Festival and the Reno Film Festival. And all four are scheduled virtually the same two-week period.

Binsfeld is flying to New York on Wednesday, attending as many VIP parties as she can stay awake for, then getting on a flight at 6 a.m. Sunday for San Francisco, where she will attend a screening of her film and answer questions from the audience. At the end of the week, she’ll drive to Reno, then back to San Francisco.

“We’re going to pull some all-nighters,” she says. We enjoy every single festival, but realistically, some will jump-start your career because they put you in touch with the right people. The parties are more important than the screenings, frankly. That’s what you are there for, to promote your next project. You want to keep that ball rolling. You don’t want it to end with this film.”

Getting into San Francisco and Tribeca means her film has become a hit on the film festival circuit. “Every time I open my email, I’ve got a new invitation from another festival, “ she says. I’m not going to turn anything down, but I don’t know when I’m going to sleep.”

"Local filmmaker Sylvia Binsfeld has been heating things up with her Petaluma-based film short, "Hot Winter Night". The film has been burning up the festival circuit and garnering attention for Binsfeld . . . including winning second place at the Zoie Online Film Festival. It screened at a standing room only crowd at the Telluride IndieFest, where it was one of the 19 shorts selected out of 1,029 submissions."

"Binsfeld represents a growing force of talented female directors who want and need to make a difference."

…the energetic Binsfeld, whose company, DreamWeaver Films, recently won a Telly Award - an advertising industry accolade…plans to direct an independent feature …