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Love In America 2025
Our Love Story to Humanity
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Tell us about love. Yes, you.
Love in America 2025 is part of our ongoing practice where we give space to our community and the stories that connect us to one another. This is our purpose and reason for being, to inspire global belonging by creating a living Love Story to Humanity. We’d love for you to join us.
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A Love Story
No. 1
A Revery Original
A Love Story
No. 1
This is A Love Story. It features 25 strangers, friends, and family members in our communities and asks them to speak about love. About what it means to tell your own story. About being human.
Why make a film with no client or agenda beyond our own beating hearts? A Revery project through and through, we created this film as a compass for our future. As storytellers in service to people, love, and story, it felt right to amplify the voices of others. To ask honest — sometimes messy — questions.
To listen. To embrace love and the human experience in all its complexities.
The Ask
Create a love letter to humanity, one that values people’s stories. And just happens to represent who we are and what we believe in.
A compass, not a map
A film about storytelling itself, we sat down with people across cities we call home and handed them the mic. What does it mean to embrace your identity? To share your story? To grieve, to dance, to imagine a new future? To love? Telling human stories is the most powerful way we can connect to each other. Often, it’s the only way.
Rather than using this opportunity to talk about ourselves, we opted to reach out, not in. Create friends out of strangers. Find truth in expansive stories. Ask questions and trust that the things people tell us would lead the way.
The Idea
We have a responsibility to one another, and can use our skills and resources to amplify the things that unite us.
Storytelling as an act of care
We believe that what unites us is greater than what divides us, and that our work is so much bigger than any one of us. Creating a film that centers our community spreads love out into the world during a time that needs it. And a documentary was the perfect vehicle.
Docs don’t require perfection — they require presence. They ask us to be vulnerable in order to sit together and allow that moment to expand into something real. An innate urge to be seen truthfully, to value our collective stories.
For the people in A Love Story, we hope they feel honored. We hope they know their experiences are worthy of being shared. Because they are.
Big Love
“If we don’t tell our own stories, someone else will. And when the stories aren’t told, we all suffer the consequences of not knowing the fullness, or beauty, of other people’s stories.” – Ime Etuk
A call to action
We hope this film encourages all of us to keep asking questions, to use our voice and platforms for belonging and connection, to listen to each others’ stories. This is both a simple and deeply powerful act. It’s a purpose we believe in, and will always fight for. Because if we can use our craft to build new ways for people to contribute and belong, what greater purpose is there?
“If we don’t tell our own stories, someone else will. And when the stories aren’t told, we all suffer the consequences of not knowing the fullness, or beauty, of other people’s stories.” – Ime Etuk
A call to action
We hope this film encourages all of us to keep asking questions, to use our voice and platforms for belonging and connection, to listen to each others’ stories. This is both a simple and deeply powerful act. It’s a purpose we believe in, and will always fight for. Because if we can use our craft to build new ways for people to contribute and belong, what greater purpose is there?
Connection is what we’re all hungry for. Stories are how we feed that hunger.
Better Together
If you’re here, you have a story to tell and we’d love to hear from you. Send us a note at hello@revery.is — we read every single one.
If you need a prompt, tell us what love and community mean to you. We’re holding space for your stories, and we’re listening. Thanks for being here.
By the Numbers
Done
11x Shoot Days
10 TB of Footage
25 Hours of Interviews
400 Clips
Delivered
A Revery film filled with People, Love, and Stories.
Our Roles
Narrative Storytelling
- Story Development
- Creative Strategy
- Narrative Strategy
- Art Direction
Brand Development & Design
Creative Production
- Production Services
- Post Production
- Shoot Production
- Color & Finishing
- Creative Direction
- Sound Design
Collaborators
Director
∙ Zak Marx
∙ Alexander Gilbert
Interviewer
∙ Zak Marx
Director of Photography
∙ Alexander Gilbert
Creative Director
∙ Zak Marx
Executive Creative Director
∙ Dustin Edward Arnold
Executive Producer
∙ Davis Priestley
∙ Chrissy Lucas
Producer
∙ Jake Lowden
Post Producer
∙ Avida Jackson
Production Sound
∙ Chris Sinn
∙ Anna Rieke
Edit
Alexander Gilbert
Color
∙ Matt Osborne
Music & Sound
∙ Andrew Miller
Let’s work
together
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