Trivia

$10,000 from the movies profits were donated to the Los Angeles Mission.

The docudrama being about 'human tragedy', the producers decided to include real homeless people as a part of the movie crew (on payroll) to be a part of the project.

'Living the Dream' is based on an in depth behavioral study of a group of people, linking their childhood experiences to their life as adults, their core traits and how belief systems influence their thought patterns based on the behavior theories on childhood conditioning outlined in Christian Schoyen and Christin Tellefsen's Carl Jung based book; "Can People Change"

All of the characters in 'Living the Dream' have different background stories that show how they themselves have been victims of indoctrination and how it affect their interactions with others.

Christian Schoyen had no prior experience in filmmaking. Due to being skilled headers Christian and Christin Tellefsen recruited themselves their favorite Hollywood stars and crew of 60 people, next filming Living the Dream over a 3-week summer holiday in July 2004 resulting in a theatrical US release and distribution by Paramount Pictures. LA Times reviewed the film as; "It's downright misanthropic ...farcical drama with the most hostile cinematic view of Los Angeles since Crash."