Everything is Upstream

Part animation and part documentary. Buddhist monks from around the world offer vivid descriptions of their dreams, which are then brought to life through detailed rotoscope.

Cast

Boan Sunim
Jamnean Seelasettho
Tsering Tashi
Subhana Barzaghi
Monico de la Cruz
Patrick Pascual
Leah Rose

Crew

Produced by
Diane Villavieja … producer
Alexandre Navarro Composer
Martin Ponferrada Editing
Martin Ponferrada       Cinematography
Michele-Antonio Mattiuzzi … production manager
Harmik Mansourian … sound editor / sound mixer
Jorge Cortes Atanacio … sfx rigger
Maria Pamela de Los Reyes … assistant camera
Kevin Jiang … drone camera op
Martin Ponferrada … animator
Kueyon Basilio … translation: korean
Sonia Chung … translation: mandarin
Gayle Collins … translation: korean
Pauline Huang … translation: mandarin
Vito Hui … spiritual consultant
James Law … translation: mandarin
Nicole Leo … translation: mandarin
Odette Luangsy … translation: thai
Lianne Ngo … spiritual consultant
Jimmy Nguyen … spiritual consultant
Sarah Tong … spiritual consultant
Hui-Ping Tsai … translation: mandarin
Amadee Vongthongsri … translation: thai
Rina Vongthongsri … spiritual consultant