Theatrical trailer for the documentary Circus Dreams.
Director Signe Taylor crafts a lively, loving portrait of Circus Smirkus, a one-of-a-kind training ground for young performers (including many from Marin County), capturing the thrills, hopes, tensions, creativity and love that marked the camp's 2006 season, when every performance held the fate of the circus's future. It's impossible not to fall immediately for these kids—an elite group of 12- to 18-year-old acrobats, jugglers, aerialists and clowns training for an intense 70-show tour—who amaze not only in their physical talents but in their poise, ambition and wide-open emotions.