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Ink (2009)

Ink poster
Directed by
Jamin Winans
Genre
fantasy film, science fiction film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 46m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 339 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In a shadowy world between sleep and waking, beings called Storytellers and Nightmare Givers fight over human dreams. A mysterious figure named Ink kidnaps a young girl to use her soul as a bargaining chip, and her father must find a way to save her.

dreamlikesomberatmosphericmysteriousslow-pacedemotionalthought-provokingdark fantasy

What happens

Ink is a 2009 American science fantasy film written and directed by Jamin Winans, starring Chris Kelly, Quinn Hunchar and Jessica Duffy. It was produced by Winans's own independent production company, Double Edge Films, with Kiowa K. Winans, and shot by cinematographer Jeff Pointer in locations around Denver, Colorado. The film premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on January 23, 2009, and has screened in Denver, the Cancun Film Festival (where it won the Best International Feature award), Rams Head Onstage in Baltimore and in a number of independent movie houses in cities around the US. The film was widely circulated in peer-to-peer networks, which led to its commercial success on DVD and Blu-ray. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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