AFI Award Winners Stefano Da Frè & Laura Pellegrini are the Directors and Producers of a brand new Feature Film:

A Dream Beyond The Dark

The Story 

From the Award-Winning Team behind Stolen Dough (Russo Brothers' AGBO; Marvel Studios), The Day I Had To Grow Up (Amazon Prime, Apple TV), & The Girl Who Cannot Speak (NBC), comes the story of Daniel Lacroix, an emerging painter who is blind.

Driven by his passion, Daniel sets his sights on New York City to make a living as an artist in spite of his disability. One cold night, alone in his studio, he is visited by Celine, a guardian angel who submerges Daniel into a dream to reclaim his vision.

Daniel's journey expands with the necessary courage it takes to dream beyond the dark.

STARRING

• Stefano Da Frè (HBO Max - That Damn Michael Che)
• Clara McGregor (FX Network - American Horror Story)
• Jacopo Rampini (Netflix - The Medicis)
• Brooklyn Benson (HBO Max - Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty)

This is Our Goal

Together as a team, we want to raise $10,000!

This money we receive will go towards the Post-Production phase needed to finish our film:

1. Editing

2. Sound Mixing & Foley

3. Color Grading

4. Festival Submissions

Finally, 20% of your generous contribution will go to the American Foundation For the Blind, a top-tier non-profit organization that uses data and research to help those with vision loss & retinal degeneration.

Let's Make A Change Together

Filmmaking is a family. It requires patience, love, courage, & compassion. Most of all, it requires humility to understand that nothing great can be accomplished by yourself.

That's why we love making films: Because we all need one another.

If you help us finish "A Dream Beyond The Dark," we'll all be able to share a true story that uniquely blends a human experience with magical surrealism. As a team, our project will pave the way for more films about disabled artists, striving to overcome the odds through persistence, faith, and - above all things - Love.

Thank you. From our hearts to yours. 

The Creative Team

Stefano Da Frè & Laura Pellegrini (Directors & Producers) are the President & Vice President of Rosso Films International. RFI is a global film production company with offices in New York City, New York & Montreal, Canada. Their collaborations include NBC Universal, MSNBC, Peacock.com, as well as other numerous advertising clients.

RFI produces narrative films and social documentaries that have been BAFTA + Oscar-Qualified.

The duo's most notable documentary, “The Girl Who Cannot Speak,” screened at the Meet-The-Press Film Festival (in collaboration with AFI - American Film Institute). It earned the Top 5 ‘Coup De Foudre’ recognition at the Cannes Film Festival, and went on to screen at two prestigious Oscar-Qualifiers: the St. Louis International Film Festival & Festival REGARD.

The film won a Platinum REMI Award at WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival and “Best Documentary” at the Switzerland International Film Festival.

This past year, Stefano directed and Laura produced a feature film called "Stolen Dough." It was 1 of 8 films chosen out of 1,200 worldwide to receive the Russo Brothers' Italian American Film Forum Grant ("Captain America: Winter Soldier," "Avengers: Endgame.") 

As a filmmaking duo, their ultimate goal is to create arthouse films that inspire a human connection.

Our Producers

Brandon De Los Reyes is a content producer and creative based in New York City. Professionally, he specializes in making original video content.

He has produced commercial content, music videos, as well as short & feature films that have screened at many prestigious festivals. In recent years, he has worked largely in New York for world class production companies such as Anonymous Content, Sawyer Studios Entertainment, and Click3X which has brought him onto professional sets for clients like Crest, AT&T, Little Caesars, Carefree, Chase and CBS 'The Amazing Race.'With Rosso Films, Brandon has helped produce works that have earned both Academy and BAFTA qualifying acclaim.

Julia Bolt is a narrative / documentary film producer based in the US. The Day I Had to Grow Up (2020), for which she received her first Executive Producer credit, received the Best Documentary award at the Kennedy Center in DC, Best Documentary Short and NY Filmmaker Award at Chain Film Festival, the Best Documentary Special Jury Prize at Anaheim International Film Festival, a Bronze Remi Award at the Houston International Film Festival, and the Mejor Cortometraje Documental at L'HIFF Film Festival in Barcelona. Her piece, Codeswitching, has been aired on PBS platforms all around the country. She is a creative producer for Women in Film and the Independent Documentary Association, and Manhattan Neighborhood Network.