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California Dreamers (2013)

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California Dreamers

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  • California Dreamers is an epic animated adventure that tells the story of a bird and cat that leave their home Russia to seek the American dream. The pair makes their way to Long Beach, CA and quickly learn that the dream can sometimes be a nightmare as they are captured and imprisoned by the LYFE (Live Young Forever) Corporation, a cosmetics manufacturer that secretly tests its products on animals in its laboratory. Though the pair initially clashes with the animals bred at the LYFE Corp, they realize they are not so different after all and they befriend the other captive animals in the LYFE laboratory. After a failed escape attempt, street animals from Venice Beach, CA band together to attempt a daring rescue of all of the animals trapped in the LYFE Corp. The film celebrates hip-hop music and street dancing and unites legendary pioneers from the east and west coast such as Kurtis Blow, The Force MDs, DJ Joe Cooley, Chris The Glove Taylor, J.J. Fad, King-T and many more. Also featured are the talents of original Locker, Shabba-Doo (Breakin, Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo), Timothy Popin' Pete Solomon (The Electric Boogaloos) as "Pete the Kat," Richard "Crazy Legs" Colón (Rock Steady Crew) as "Legs," Stefan "Mr. Wiggles" (RSC/EB's) Clemente, and Shonie Boog (The EB's) as "Kopy Kat.—RedEyeAnimation

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  • California Dreamers is an epic animated adventure that tells the story of a bird (Wilson) who convinces a cat (Masik) to leave his home in Moscow, Russia to seek the California Sunset, warm beaches, and blue sky. The pair arrive at the port of Long Beach, California and quickly learn the dream can sometimes be a nightmare as they make their way to Venice Beach where they are captured and imprisoned by the LYFE (Live Young Forever) Corporation, a cosmetics manufacturer that secretly tests its products on stray animals in its laboratory.

    Though the pair initially clashes with the animals bred at the LYFE Corp, they realize they are not so different after all and they befriend the other captive animals in the LYFE laboratory.

    After a failed escape attempt, street animals from Venice Beach band their paws together to attempt a daring rescue of all of the animals trapped in the LYFE Corp.

    The film celebrates Hip-Hop music and street dancing, uniting legendary pioneers from the East and West Coast such as Kurtis Blow as "King Kurtis", Melle Mel as "Muscle Mel", Ronnie Hudson, The Force MDs, DJ Joe Cooley, Chris "The Glove" Taylor, J.J. Fad, King-T, Kid Frost, and many more.

    Also featured are the talents of world class street-dance legends original Locker, Shabba-Doo (Breakin, Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo) as "Bone Zone", Timothy Popin' Pete Solomon (The Electric Boogaloos) as "Pete the Kat," Richard "Crazy Legs" Colón (Rock Steady Crew) as "Legs," Stefan "Mr. Wiggles" (RSC/EB's) Clemente, and Shonie Boog (The EB's) as "Kopy Kat for motion capture dance sequences.

    All have been enlisted to represent the roots of hip-hop for voice overs and soundtrack material.

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