Festival Predictions

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman’s Things Heard and Seen

Published on November 24, 2020

Another Netflix project on our list sorta filmed under the radar back in November of 2019. Back in their heyday, Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman were Sundance royalty when they launched American Splendor in 2013 and won the Grand Jury Prize at the fest. Things Heard and Seen was filmed in Hudson Valley, New York with the likes of James Norton, Amanda Seyfried, Natalia Dyer, Rhea Seehorn, Alex Neustaedter, and vet F. Murray Abraham.

Gist: The story centers on a Manhattan couple who move to a historic hamlet in the Hudson Valley and come to discover that their marriage has a sinister darkness, one that rivals their new home’s history.

Production Co./Producers:
Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman, Stefanie Azpiazu and Peter Cron, Julie Cohen.

Prediction: PREMIERES.

U.S. Distributor: Netflix.

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).