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From Director, David Dutton:

Julian and I want to make a visual piece that shows people from around the world gravitating toward each other in a celebration of change to make the world a better place. Besides everyone's love for music (that naturally draws humans together), they also take small steps to improve our environment back to health.

We cast cultural dance organizations through the help of producer, Jessica Recinos and her performance company Rising Rhythm SF. First we shot all the narrative action, and dances on a green screen set at Dance Mission Theater; from Danza Azteca dance, Dia de Los Muertos candle walks, to samba drummers marching.

The edit involved first animating an entire video using the green screen footage. Once there was a picture locked story, we took the frames of the video and used Stable Diffusion & Disco Diffusion on Google Notebook Colab to write Ai code to our footage. Our texted prompts were like writing a script of what we wanted to see come alive in our narrative. It was extremely powerful when dreaming up how scenes could evolve from fiery ashes to blooming flower fields.

After many days of trial and error, we had dreamed up successful imaginations into our images and edited them back into the final video. We hope you love it.


Director, Editor, Animator, and AI Artist:
David Dutton

Story Concept:
Julian Lennon and David Dutton

Producer & Casting
Jessica Recinos

Cinematography:
Alan Fisher

Location:
Dance Mission Theater

Dancers/Actors:
Bruce Ghent
Bongo Sidibe
Joti Singh
Pedro Gomez
Kimberley Moore
Manolo Davila
Jairo Vargas
Tania Santiago
Maisa Dukes
Nasha Santiago
Stella Adelman
Anita Pascasio
Liliana Sofia Aviles
Jesus Cortes
Ariana Cortes
Stella Adelman
Shireen Rahimi

Management:
Rebecca Warfield / The Chicane Group


Lyrics:
Everyone is searching, trying to find a new religion
Some peace of mind, peace of mind
Don’t wanna let go of all of my intuition
I need a sign, cos love is blind

I feel a change is coming, I know
A new revolution’s knocking on my door
I feel a change is coming, so strong
It might not be forever, but I know that we’re the lucky ones…
I know that we’re the lucky ones
I know that we’re the lucky ones

Everyone is hurting tryin’ a find a real solution
Well you might find, that love ain’t blind
The world is burning while we’re dancing in our own pollution
Well is there time, or did we cross the line?

I feel a change is coming, I know
A new revolution’s knocking on my door
I feel a change is coming, so strong
It might not be forever, but I know that we’re the lucky ones…
I know that we’re the lucky ones
I know that we’re the lucky ones

We gotta find a way to get better
The only way through this is together
It’s not too late, so never say never

I know that we’re the lucky ones…

Look at us we fucked up the weather
If we unite, we’ll get through whatever
We need this world to last us forever

A new revolution’s knocking on my door
We’re gonna stop at nothing, oh no
The hurt won’t last forever,
‘Cos I know thatWe’re the lucky ones…

I know that we’re the lucky ones
I know that we’re the lucky ones

We gotta find a way to get better
The only way through this is together
It’s not too late, so never say never

I know that we’re the lucky ones…

Look at us we fucked up the weather
If we unite, we’ll get through whatever
We need this world to last us forever

I know that we’re the lucky ones….


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