Festival Predictions

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Mohan’s Immaculate

Published on November 13, 2023

He has been to Park City on three different occasions including a pair of features in One Too Many Mornings (2010) and Save the Date (2012) and now Michael Mohan might return with an ambitious new project that went into production back in January. Re-teaming Sydney Sweeney who toplined Mohan’s 2021 The Voyeurs, Immaculate is a psychological horror set in Italy that was written by Andrew Lobel.

Gist: Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney), a woman of devout faith who is offered a fulfilling new role at an illustrious Italian convent. Her warm welcome to the picture-perfect Italian countryside is interrupted, however, as it becomes clearer to Cecilia that her new home harbors dark and horrifying secrets.

Production Co./Producers: Black Bear’s Teddy Schwarzman and Michael Heimler, Fifty-Fifty Films’ Sydney Sweeney and Jonathan Davino.

Prediction: Midnight.

Sales: CAA and Paradigm (Domestic). Black Bear Intl. (International).

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).