Dreamdancer Motion Pictures established itself as one of the premiere digital video studios in the Midwestern United States before moving their offices to Hollywood, California in May of 2003. Founded 15 years ago, on 24 May 1993 in Cleveland, Ohio by Eric Muss-Barnes as a music video production facility, Dreamdancer Motion Pictures was one of the pioneering suites in the country to start using digital, non-linear editing systems on their projects.

During their initial years, Dreamdancer Motion Pictures produced music videos for a wide range of musical acts and as a result, they immediately established a great deal of diversity into their portfolio. Shooting and editing music videos from "Tori Amos-like" solo girls with pianos, to "Nine Inch Nails-like" industrial bands, to "U2-like" artists, to live jazz concerts, Dreamdancer Motion Pictures quickly gained a strong reputation for outstanding professionalism, at costs reasonable enough for acts to afford their services.

Only one year after wrapping their very first projects, the company quickly expanded into producing a television program entitled "Shellsongs"; the episodes were an alternative music video show, designed to showcase Dreamdancer Motion Pictures work. In addition to their own work, Dreamdancer Motion Pictures featured bands from record labels all around the world, truly establishing Dreamdancer Motion Pictures as a national and globally recognized company. Of the program, one music magazine wrote a review which actually said "if only MTV's 120 Minutes could be so good."

Remaining on the cutting-edge of visual technologies, Dreamdancer Motion Pictures has embraced and evolved with the advances in the age of the Internet and digital visual communications. Now offering 100% digital production capabilities on all of their projects, the quality of their work has never been more crisp, clean, stylish or innovative than it is today. Keeping up-to-date, they are constantly pushing the limits of their capabilities, including using Emmy Award winning software in their studio. In addition to standard video formats, they offer productions as high-quality, webcast-encoded video which can be viewed over broadband on the Net. In fact, few companies in the world have as extensive a knowledge regarding technologies such as webcasting and encoding video for Internet delivery.

Continuing to excel in the realm of digital independent films, Dreamdancer Motion Pictures has acted as the editing facility for projects such as the feature-length movie "Losing Hope" from Crazy Ralph Films. Dreamdancer Motion Pictures also cut a version of the short "F(r)iends" by StoneKap Productions. And all of the behind-the-scenes documentary footage for the reshoot of the epic production "One" from Quantus Pictures was acquired exclusively by Dreamdancer Motion Pictures. With tentative plans in the works for future productions, including two shorts, two features, a set of music videos, an instructional video sequel, and a series of modeling editing projects, Dreamdancer Motion Pictures now commands a significant portfolio. Their field of experience features music videos ranging from rock to jazz to ambient artists, corporate presentations for clients from Huntington National Banks to the Cleveland Film Society, instructional and educational videos, runway and fashion shows, even a talkshow and feature-length and short digital film credits.

Over the years, Dreamdancer Motion Pictures has had the honor of partnering with fine companies such as Crazy Ralph Films, StoneKap Productions and Quantus Pictures to help bring some of the brightest, most daring independent motion picture productions of our time to life.

The name "Dreamdancer" was coined after a close friend accidentally gave Eric the nickname "Dreamdancer." She intended to refer to him as a "dream walker" but said "dream dancer" instead.

He liked the sound of that.

When he began doing video production and required a company name, Eric decided Dreamdancer would be perfect. But "Dreamdancer" what?

Dreamdancer Media?... No. Too ambiguious.

Dreamdancer Movies?... No. That sounds stupid.

Dreamdancer Films?... What if the production is shot on video?

Dreamdancer Video?... No. It sounds like a video rental store. Besides, what if a production is shot on film?

Dreamdancer Motion Pictures?... Yes... Cool... Very cool.

The tag of "motion pictures" sounds very "old Hollywood." One can imagine a 1920's film opening with "United Artists and Dreamdancer Motion Pictures present..." Plus, the name was long and unique enough to assure that no other company was already using anything like it.

People frequently think that "Dreamdancer Motion Pictures" was inspired from the studioname "DreamWorks SKG." However, Dreamdancer Motion Pictures existed before DreamWorks SKG ever came into being. Dreamdancer Motion Pictures was founded in May of 1993 whereas the partnership of DreamWorks SKG was founded over a year later, in October of 1994 by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen ("SKG" is merely the initials of the three founding partners' last names). The name "DreamWorks SKG" was announced in January of 1995, three months after the company was founded and nearly two years after Dreamdancer Motion Pictures began.

After eight years, Dreamdancer Motion Pictures greatly expanded in 2000, adding a full-digital production suite capable of creating projects with true Hollywood-quality. At Dreamdancer Motion Pictures, our goal is to create a new category of motion pictures, somewhere between the low-end of major studios and the high-end of independent movies. We don't expect to produce features with quality equal to the next Hollywood blockbuster (...yet). But we do expect our caliber to be close to that of, say, a well-produced made-for-television movie. We seek to produce projects which vastly supass the craftsmanship of the average independent film or B-movie.

Dreamdancer Motion Pictures has produced projects ranging from a weekly music video television program, to wedding videos, corporate banking presentations, live jazz concerts, fashion shows, short films, feature films, and instructional and educational clips.