Ever heard of Dreaming Tree Films? Don’t be shocked if you haven’t, Dreaming Tree has been tucked away in Ravenswood for the better part of a decade, dealing with largely out-of-town clients and not making a spectacle of themselves on the local scene. Alas, some people prefer action to hype. Dreaming Tree was one of the early adopters of original online video. Back when BMW Films was making a splash with “The Hire” and the U.S. Army was getting overbilled for the “Army of One” campaign, Dreaming Tree was producing short films for digital distribution on the websites of UHF stations. If their “Mr. Marvelous,” a satire of blind dates and superheroes that would fit in nicely with this summer’s box offices trends, was online I’d link to it, but somewhere along the way Dreaming Tree started doing large campaigns instructing teenagers on video production at the behest of larger corporations like Samsung and their focus shifted. Still, I understand Dreaming Tree as recently wrapped filming on the feature-length “Revengends” a greenscreen-backdropped experimental film fusing the stories of Hamlet and MacBeth.

We recently had occasion to catch up with Dreaming Tree about their transition in business direction and current activities. (more…)