Rehearsing a Dream

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| director = Karen Goodman
Kirk Simon

| producer = Karen Goodman
Kirk Simon

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| cinematography = Buddy Squires
Steve McCarthy

| editing = Nancy Baker

| studio = Simon & Goodman Picture Co.

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| released = {{Film date|2006}}

| runtime = 39 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

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Rehearsing a Dream is a short documentary directed and produced by four time Oscar nominees Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon. Cinematography by Buddy Squires and Steve McCarthy, edited by Nancy Baker and a Production of Simon & Goodman Picture Company. The film premiered on HBO in August 2007 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/376621/Rehearsing-a-Dream/details |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017031614/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/376621/Rehearsing-a-Dream/details |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-10-17 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2012 |title=NY Times: Rehearsing a Dream |accessdate=2008-12-06}}

The film follows a group of gifted 17-year-old performing and visual artists at the YoungArts program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts in Miami. The young artists as spend a week learning from mentors like Mikhail Baryshnikov, Vanessa L. Williams, Jacques d'Amboise and Michael Tilson Thomas. The NFAA has for the past 27 years been helping the country's best high-school senior art students with their annual YoungArts Week in Miami and by scholarships. Over 7500 students apply for about 150 spots in all arts disciplines.