Interview With "In Your Dreams" Filmmaker Alex Woo

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

"In Your Dreams" is an American animated adventure-comedy film directed by Alex Woo and co-directed by Erik Benson, from a script by Woo and Benson and a story by Woo, Benson, and Stanley Moore. It tells the story of Stevie (Jolie Hoang-Rappaport) and her little brother Elliot (Elias Janssen), who journey into the wildly absurd landscape of their own dreams to ask the Sandman to grant them the perfect family. Produced by Netflix Animation and Kuku Studios, it received generally positive reviews from critics. Director/co-writer Woo was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now available to stream on Netflix and is up for your consideration for Best Animated Feature at the 98th Academy Awards. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howitt's interview with the director and writer of the film In Your Dreams, Alex Woe.
0:08.7	Hey!
0:09.0	Want to see a magic trick?
0:10.4	Why do you have to be so annoying?
0:11.8	Open the note, Stevie.
0:15.1	Stevie will say, why do you have to be so...
0:17.3	Okay, we're done here.
0:18.3	Tudor!
0:20.3	Hey guys, something came up, and I'm headed out of town super early.
0:24.6	You're leaving?
0:25.6	Dad's not like mom's gonna move.
0:27.6	Right?
0:28.6	I just don't want you to worry, honey.
0:30.6	Hey, Stevie, look what I found.
0:32.6	What is that?
0:33.6	The legend of the sandman.
0:36.6	It says the sandman can make your dreams come true.
0:39.5	It's magic!
0:41.6	I can see her crack, Houdini.
0:45.8	Hey, Stevie.
0:47.5	What would you dream be?
0:58.5	Hey, Dad. There's a dead girl in the cereal.
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