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Video: Michael Almereyda’s Marjorie Prime – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A

Published on August 16, 2017

“We got drunk in a bar last year and talked a lot about holograms.” – Michael Almereyda on his conversation with playwright Jordan Harrison.

Just two short years after premiering Experimenter, Michael Almereyda made the return trip to Park City for Marjorie Prime. Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Lois Smith and Tim Robbins joined him on stage for the second film screening at the Eccles. In the Q&A they discuss holograms, differences between the play and the feature. FilmRise release the film on Friday, August 18th.

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).