Festival Predictions

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ian Samuels’ The Map of Tiny Perfect Things

Published on November 19, 2020

Rising starlet Kathryn Newton (who we just saw in Freaky – read review) toplines this sophomore feature — an Amazon Studios backed fantasy project from helmer Ian Samuels. The filmmaker saw his short film Myrna the Monster hit Sundance in 2015, and the shot in Alabama (in February of this year) The Map of Tiny Perfect Things also features Kyle Allen, Jermaine Harris, Anna Mikami, Josh Hamilton, Cleo Fraser, and Jorja Fox. This is based on a screenplay by Lev Grossman, based upon his short story of the same name.

Gist: Two teens who live the same day repeatedly, enabling them to create the titular map.

Production Co./Producers: Weed Road Pictures’ Akiva Goldsman, Ashley Fox, Gregory Lessans, Aaron Ryder.

Prediction: Premieres

U.S. Distributor: Amazon Studios.

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).