When a dream comes true

Ed decides to leave his life in Barcelona to take a trip to the United States to follow his childhood dream of becoming a filmmaker there. Close to turning 40, and with his wedding just around the corner, he realizes that his life has not worked out as he had planned. An identity crisis begins which makes him leave everything and try to make his childhood dream —the American dream— come true. With the script of a film he wrote a few years ago under his arm, and the idea of trying to make the project a reality in the United States, Ed embarks on a road trip from New York to Hollywood, on which he meets diverse characters with whom he reflects upon the pros and cons of following our dreams, while at the same time he tries to achieve his and seeks a more precise definition of happiness.

Spain Director Ed studied several courses in the Cinema School of Cuba, the University of New York and Massachusetts School of Arts. In 2003, he founded the producer Mc Guffin Estudio Audiovisual in 2003, where he works as director and executive producer. When a Dream Comes True, his first international documentary, was the only Spanish project selected to participate in Lisbon Docs and Documentary Campus, and won the award for best pitching at DOK Leipzig. Ed has written, produced and directed dozens of videos, advertisements and shows. He is also responsible for new TV programmes such as “TRENDY”, “Low Cost” and “Cuina de Despatx” and he is the creator and founder of Streetmatching.com, the first web and App to use geolocation to connect people who run into each other in the street. Empathy, his first feature documentary, was premiered in theaters of Spain in April 2017.