Festival Predictions

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Sarnoski’s Pig

Published on November 20, 2020

In early 2020, Neon purchased the rights to Gunda (the docu film) and Pig which had completed production in late December of 2019. Shot in the backdrop of Portland, Oregon, writer/director Michael Sarnoski got to direct Nicolas Cage in what we imagine was an angry Nicolas Cage. Alex Wolff and Adam Arkin are also onboard. Sarnoski directed a trio of shorts and television work prior to.

Gist: This follows a mushroom forager (Cage) whose beloved pig goes missing.

Production Co./Producers: Vanessa Block, Dimitra Tsingou, Ben Giladi, Nicolas Cage.

Prediction: MIDNIGHT.

U.S. Distributor: Neon.

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).