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Sleepless is a large scale noncommercial filmo project produced by
Vertov Industries for Broadcast on 'Olelo: The Corporation for Community
Television. That facility serves Oahu [Metropolis of the Hawaiian
Island Chain], over the Oceanic and TCI cable systems. They are wired
to over 220,000 locations across the island.
On the heels of completing its ninth year, Sleepless is still the only
locally produced long form fiction program. Its anthology format links
multiple characters who have trouble with sleep. Their insomnia is
only a small symptom of what hammers at them. The retelling of how they
became sleepless is often the cornerstone in finding a resolution. Simple
yarns exchanged over a table top are woven together with elaborate
flashbacks and challenging narratives. This allows us to both fabricate
a fresh roster of personae or revisit ones we can't get enough of.
Be advised the Sleepless may be grand in its scope, but it is one
matrix of projects in a field of many.
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