Festival Predictions

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: R. J. Cutler’s Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry

Published on November 16, 2020

Acclaimed docu filmmaker R.J. Cutler has already made a couple of trips to Sundance most notably with Grand Jury Prize for Cinematography winning The September Issue (2009) and 2013’s The World According to Dick Cheney. Miss Americana (docu on Taylor Swift) was the unofficial opener for Sundance 2020, and seeing that Apple are looking to launch Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry in February, perhaps this Bad Guy might sneak in.

Gist: Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell – is the 17-year old phenomenon who records with her brother Finneas O’Connell.

Production Co./Producers: R.J. Cutler, Trevor Smith

Prediction: DOCUMENTARY PREMIERES

U.S. Distributor: AppleTV+

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).