Alex Woo began working at Pixar in 2005 and quickly accumulated quite the resume: he worked as a story artist on some of the animation studio’s greatest hits, including Ratatouille, WALL-E, The Good Dinosaur, and The Incredibles 2. But by 2016, he was looking to carve his own path. He left Pixar to found Kuku Studios that year, an independent animation studio that aimed to make audiences "cry tears of laughter and tears of pathos.” And nearly nine years later, Woo succeeded with his first directorial feature, In Your Dreams.
In Your Dreams follows siblings Stevie and Elliot who discover a mysterious book called The Legend of the Sandman. The book gives them the ability to “Lucid Dream,” which allows them to control aspects of the dream and navigate wildly imaginative dream worlds. When Stevie and Elliot discover that their parents may be on the verge of splitting up, they embark on a quest in the dream world to find the Sandman, so he can grant their wishes of keeping their family together.
