Festival Predictions

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nadine Crocker’s Continue

Published on November 17, 2020

A project that comes from a deep, personal place, for her directorial debut, actress Nadine Crocker turned the lens inwards for Continue and surrounded herself with the likes of Emily Deschanel, Shiloh Fernandez, Analeigh Tipton, Kat Foster, Annapurna Sriram and Dale Dickey. Production began in November of 2019 with the backing of Cassian Elwes and so if Sundance programmers are looking for a subject-related drama with punch, they might consider this could easily fall in a SXSW slot.

Gist: It follows a girl (Crocker) suffering from depression who is forced to get her life together when she is taken involuntarily to a mental institution, after trying to follow in her father’s footsteps, but failing her suicide attempt. She finds unlikely friends, unwavering love, & a life she never imagined possible for a girl like her. All to find out some decisions can’t be undone. And not every story is a happy one.

Production Co./Producers: Cassian Elwes, Jay Seals, Anthony Caravella, Nadine Crocker.

Prediction: U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.

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).