A visiting film director to the Ohio State campus shows how someone can change.The film, “The Dream Catcher” is playing at the Wexner Center tonight. The film follows two teen-age runaways, with criminal records, hitchhiking through middle America searching for the parents who abandoned them years before. Through any means, including hitchhiking, hopping trains and stealing cars, they make their way across the country. Growing up in the all-white town of Bellbrook, Ohio, film director Ed Radtke acquired a criminal record because he said he was the only Asian kid, thus was easily identified. Radtke said he loves stories about human struggle. This movie appears to have that theme, being a movie about life on the road.Steve Bognar, who helped produce the film along with Julia Reichert, was reluctant to give his thoughts on the movie. “I’ve spent three years working on this movie with the rest of the crew,” he said, “so I’m highly biased.” Although he produced the movie with Reichert using limited resources, it turned out great, he added. The movie was shot mainly in the Miami Valley and throughout the middle of America.”This is a road movie that was actually filmed by driving across America,” Bognar said.”We drove from Ohio to Nevada, crossing the Midwest, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains into the Far West.”Preceding “The Dream Catcher” is a short film by Bognar. “Picture Day” is a seven-minute film with 601 children from Tussing Elementary, a school in suburban Columbus. All the 601 children are given 12 frames to express themselves.”The kids in the film all make faces at camera while the soundtrack features them talking about the nature of photographs and how photographs connect to memory and ultimately to loss,” Bognar said. “We shot this movie with the Wexner Center’s movie camera,” he said. “Ohio State students are so lucky to have a nationally recognized, amazingly cool place like the Wexner Center right here in their midst.”Both “Picture Day” and “The Dream Catcher” have been screened at film festivals. “Picture Day” was shown at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and “The Dream Catcher” was shown at the L.A. Independent Film Festival, which awarded Radtke the best director title.Screening begins at 7 p.m. at the Wexner Center. Admission is $4 for students, Wexner Center members and senior citizens, $5 for the general public and $2 for those under 12.