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This film explores the inner world of the Safarani Sisters - identical twins from Iran who are captivating the contemporary art world with their mesmerizing fusion of classical painting and imbedded motion picture. The Sisters are two people who creatively function as one in a personality that is both fascinating and fraught. They resist separation, but require it in real life. The solution they found is to create a third world that only they can enter.

Jazz Dreams follows the lives of three young jazz musicians from New Orleans as they begin their careers: Jason Marsalis, the youngest member of the famed Marsalis family, Irvin Mayfield, an ambitious and highly gifted trumpet player and composer, and Courtney Bryan, a shy but extraordinarily talented pianist and composer. The film explores how devotion to an art form is tested over time by the realities of life and making a living. This, the first version, follows their lives for a five year period as they enter young adulthood.