Festival Predictions

2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ Toy’s House

Published on November 22, 2012

Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ almost half-hour Successful Alcoholics (watch here) was among the crowd-pleasing short film hits of the 2010 edition of Sundance. Flash-forward to this summer, Vogt-Roberts (seen above on set with Dp Ross Riege) began filming Toy’s House, his directorial debut in Ohio with a cast comprised of Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, Erin Moriarty, Mary Lynn Rajskub and Megan Mullally.

Gist: Written by Chris Galletta, the comedy follows three teen boys who set out to build their own makeshift house in the woods where, soon, everything goes haywire.

Production Co./Producers: Low Sparks Films Tyler Davidson (Compliance), John Hodges (Safety Not Guaranteed) and Big Beach Films’ Peter Saraf

Prediction: Premieres section

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Related Topics:2013 Sundance Film Festival, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Toy's House

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).