2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jim McKay’s On the Seventh Day

Perhaps the indie film career path anomaly on our complete predictions list, Jim McKay found relative success at Sundance using the festival as a platform for his first three features. Girls Town (1996), Our Song (2000) featuring a young Kerry Washington, and HBO’s Everyday People (2004) put him on the map, but then the filmmaker switched to a long career in television (from “The Wire” to “Mr.Robot”). Fast forward a dozen years later, and not only do we have another NYC story but you could say it’ll be a tale that might be more timely politically, now that the election is over with and promises/threats have been made. Not unlike Ramin Bahrani’s Man Push Chart, On the Seventh Day looks like a portrait about wearing and earning the stripes the old fashion elbow grease kind of way.

Gist: A group of undocumented Mexican immigrants work long hours six days a week, and then savor their day of rest on Sundays on the soccer fields of Brooklyn.

Production Co./Producers: Alex Bach, Lindsey Cordero, Caroline Kaplan (Time Out of Mind), Jim McKay.

Prediction: This could land just about anywhere: NEXT, U.S Dramatic, Premieres or land at a fest like Tribeca.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic). TBD (international)

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