Movie Description:
WIDE AWAKE is filmmaker Alan Berliner`s uniquely personal tour through a life long obsession with insomnia. In the spirit of all his critically acclaimedpersonal documentary films, Berliner once again uses his ownlife as a laboratory, this time to illuminate how a restless mind that won`t shut downat night leaves him feeling "jet lagged in my own time zone." A brilliantly edited blend of the hilarious and deeply personal, WideAwake weaves hundreds of archival film clips, consultations with sleep specialists, anovernight stay at a sleep lab, conversations with familymembers, home movies, dream visualizations and behind the scenes footage of the film being made into a brutally honest self portrait of asleep deprived and sleep obsessed night owl filmmaker. Torn between the creativepassion he derives from the night and the emotional tugs of love and familylife, Berliner finds only the birth of his first child can get him to consider joining the day shift.
