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2012 Sundance Predictions: So Yong Kim’s For Ellen

Fans of So Yong Kim have been waiting for what seems to be an eternity for her third oeuvre to make a festival appearance. After hoping for a showing at Sundance and the major film fests this year, I’d be willing to bet that the filmmaker and producer will travel the festival circuit with not one but two films in 2012 – For Ellen might just be joined to the hip to Bradley Rust Gray’s Jack and Diane. I expect this to be included in the Dramatic Competition Section or a Premieres section showing and find a subsequent festival release in Berlin.

#19. For Ellen – So Yong Kim

Fans of So Yong Kim have been waiting for what seems to be an eternity for her third oeuvre to make a festival appearance. After hoping for a showing at Sundance and the major film fests this year, I’d be willing to bet that the filmmaker and producer will travel the festival circuit with not one but two films in 2012 – For Ellen might just be joined to the hip to Bradley Rust Gray’s Jack and Diane. I expect this to be included in the Dramatic Competition Section or a Premieres section showing and find a subsequent festival release in Berlin.

Gist: This tells the tale of Joby (Dano), an aspiring young rock star, finally agrees to sign divorce papers with his estranged wife (Malone), he discovers that he is about to forfeit all custody of his six-year-old daughter, Ellen. Never having been in Ellen’s life before, Joby suddenly realizes that he’s not ready to lose that part of himself. Hoping to make up for lost time, he tries to win her heart.

* Producers: Jen Gatien, Bradley Rust Gray and Kim
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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).

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