About Us

We are the Distant Dream Collective, based in Ankeny, IA, USA, and are a wide reaching group consisting of anyone who has participated in a Collective sponsored event. We endeavor to make it more feasible to create films through creating a social space that brings like-minded dreamers together. Ultimately, we come together to reach the dreams which would otherwise be quite distant.

I am Ryan, the founder of the Distant Dream Collective, and have been participating in the 48 Hour Film Project as often as possible in order to grow our library of creative short films. The legacy films you may see on the homepage are short films created by teams which I’ve been a part of that predate the founding of this Collective.

I very much hope that you enjoy the films that currently make up our library. Please reach out should you wish to join the Collective.