After 20 years of chronicling his Puerto Rican family, a director and his mother face devastating losses. Through tears and laughter, they craft animations that bring their loved ones back to life, discovering that every act of creation is also an act of letting go.
What do we do in the face of life’s impermanence? This is one of the questions raised by the experimental 2026 Sundance documentary, TheyDream. Puerto Rican filmmaker William D. Caballero reckons with this question and answers it by creating. Caballero’s medium – filmmaking with various kinds of animation – becomes a kind of alchemy as the documentary goes on. Using audio from ...
Premiering at Sundance 2026 TheyDream (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: William David Caballero, Screenwriters and Producers: Erin Ploss-Campoamor, Elaine del Valle, Producer: Brad Jones) — After 20 years of chronicling his Puerto Rican family, a director and his mother face devastating losses. Through tears and laughter, they craft animations that bring their loved ones back to life, discovering that every act of creation is also an act of letting go. (Documentary).
