Festival Predictions

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Angarano’s Sacramento

Published on November 16, 2023

Avenues (2017) filmmaker Michael Angarano is obviously best known for an actor career that has spanned two-plus decades (and most recently seen in Oppenheimer) but his sophomore feature checks off some boxes for the type of hapless comedy that could fit into Park City. Starring Angarano and Michael Cera in the leads plus Kristen Stewart and Maya Erskine, production on Sacramento in Sacramento took place last spring and it should be close to finishing in post. Angarano co-wrote the script with Chris Smith.

Gist: Rickey and Glenn take an impromptu road trip from Los Angeles to Sacramento.

Production Co./Producers: Michael Angarano, Chris Smith, Bee-Hive Production’s Stephen Braun, The Wonder Company’s Eric B. Fleischman and Chris Abernathy.

Prediction: Premieres.

Sales: TBD.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).