Eyes Upon Waking

A Note from the Filmmakers

Eyes Upon Waking is a True Story about one woman’s struggle to come to terms with her own existence. This film has garnered a great deal of interest from a wide range of people - not only those who identify with the main character’s search for understanding within herself but others who have lost people close to them and want to understand why. The story is told with a surprising amount of humor, which keeps it entertaining while giving the audience a break from the drama. The target audience includes artistic-minded individuals as well as straightforward-thinking, everyday people who don’t know what it’s like to suffer their emotions. The appeal of the story is that it exposes psychological issues still mostly hidden throughout society yet everyone in the world either knows someone who’s experienced these things or felt this way themselves. When simply being alive is a life-or-death struggle, people are drawn to that conflict and want to know what will happen to these characters. Depression = PRESS ON "Eyes Upon Waking '' was crafted as a distinct and memorable title to help the film stand out, as well as convey one of its central themes. The poem is spoken aloud by a character in the final scene, and can be interpreted as making the choice to face a difficult existence even though one might prefer to end it. "When sleep becomes habit and we dare to look life  in the eyes upon waking we can only see ourselves and never look back". ~Andy Golub, Co-Writer