True Believers
A journey of self-discovery
A father-daughter sand-sculpting team explore art and life on a crazy adventure to a magic mountain in New Zealand and discover dreams are real.
Sax breaks free from his tightly controlled normal life and takes his 8 year old daughter Sarah to Bondi beach to build a sandcastle and on the way meets Zoe, a sidewalk artist. Both events change his future. Sax and Sarah begin to play a game, doing the opposite of everything they normally do, to see what magic happens.
They are discovered on Bondi by the Auckland Festival manager, Adam, and whisked off to New Zealand to build a sandcastle for the festival. They construct their castle to the delight of all and the consternation of a few city council members, who fire Adam.
Sax and Sarah learn to live in the moment and trust that they will be where they should be and do what needs to be done. They are invited to create a sand sculpture at the Adelaide Fringe Festival. Zoe goes on the road with them to Adelaide, adding her chalk colours to the ensemble.
Harmony prevails over the conflicts they encounter and this begins to look like a future career and way of being.
Adam meets them in Adelaide and becomes their manager. He takes them on a journey to a spiritual mountain in New Zealand, where magic is sacrificed on the alter of Sarah's maturity and Sax finds his dream of a peaceful creative approach to life has been manifest simply by letting it unfold.
(Photo © Sandscapes 2010)
On this site you can find an overview of True Believers and also check out reviews of the book 'Believers in Love', on which the film is based.
You can also find the production credits and production photos for Butterfly Crush, and also find more information on the cast, the development process and the production, find an outline of the story plus stills, and view podcasts.
