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Leslie Streit

&

Robin McCain

Leslie Streit and Robin McCain became producing partners in the 1990s when they opened the Nouveau Theater an
experimental performance space inside a working cannery. They created original works which synthesized art, dance,
film, music, audience and community involvement. Most notably Vlad Draculea in the Year 2000 which toured to the
Edinburgh Festival and then became one the very first serial dramas to appear on the World Wide Web. Turning to film
production, Streit's 2005 God Wears My Underwear, a documentary-narrative hybrid, tied the 1940s Jewish Holocaust
to the 1950s genocide in Tibet. It was screened at several international festivals and was awarded Best Film at the
DNA Film Festival in Toronto. Additional honors include Selected Artist at the Hong Kong Arts Biennial 2002, a 2009
Webby and several screenplay awards. Streit was twice awarded the Producer's Mark (p.g.a.) for her documentary
films. Documentary feature Elly and Henry (2017) is distributed by Espresso Media International and currently streams
on Amazon. In 2021 Streit directed and coproduced an experimental short, 95 Days, about climate change that
received many international awards. 2022 feature documentary An American Ballet Story appeared at festivals in the
US, Europe and Asia. It is distributed by Random Media, has won multiple awards and now appears on Internet
platforms including Amazon Prime and Tubi . During 2022-2023 Streit and co-producer Robin McCain created a
trilogy of experimental shorts entitled When I Become A Ghost. These films premiered at Pastine Projects in San
Francisco in February 2024, at the CICA Museum exhibition "Form 2024" in October 2024, and at the International
Media Festival in Wales in November 2024.

Nosferatu and The Dreamer/ Video 2024
The legendary vampire Nosferatu returns in 21st century style to haunt a woman in her dreams.

Nosferatu and The Dreamer is a very short experimental video that is designed to stand alone or join 4 other short works still in progress. These films will eventually form
an anthology that takes place in an imaginary Vampire nightclub in San Francisco in 2025 where dreams and visions are for sale. Vampires and dreams have been
themes I've explored (with producing partner Robin McCain) in several formats over many years - live performance/theater, dance, web series, short horror films and
mixed reality. In this particular rendition Nosferatu is a would-be scary character who ends up being totally ignored by his prey. He is a figure who evokes humor and even
affection as well as being creepy and distasteful. We hope viewers enjoy watching this little film as much as we enjoyed making it.

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