Festival Predictions

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Camilleri’s Luzzu

Published on November 19, 2020

Working as an associate editor on a trio of recent Ramin Bahrani films (At Any Price, 99 Homes, Fahrenheit 451), Alex Camilleri has been in post on his directorial debut collecting some support via Les Arcs Film Festival (2019 edition), as a Film Independent 2019 Directing Lab Fellow, and is currently a finalist to grab some coin via the SFFILM and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation for the Fall 2020 SFFILM Rainin Grant. His earliest history with anything Sundance was as a Lab participant as an editor on Rachel Israel’s Keep The Change. His feature debut Luzzu was filmed in Malta and will hit the film fest circuit in 2021.

Gist: On the island of Malta, desperate fisherman Jesmark fights the cutthroat fishing industry in order to change his family’s fate.

Production Co./Producers: Rebecca Anastasi, Ramin Bahrani, Oliver Mallia.

Prediction: NEXT.

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).