Festival Predictions

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michał Chmielewski’s Roving Woman

Published on November 24, 2021

An unknown, filmmaker with much experience breaks into out predictions list because of the curious bio subject, the players and a producer in Marta Lewandowska who was at the fest with Dolce fine giornata a couple of years back. A road movie with its roots in 70’s Greenwich Village, Michał Chmielewski‘s Roving Woman was shot during the pandemic and saw Lena Gora in the shoes of Connie Converse. John Hawkes and Chris Hanley co-star and Wim Wenders and Orian Williams are executive producing.

Gist: This is based on the mysterious disappearance of Connie Converse, the singer-songwriter who vanished without a trace in 1974.

Production Co./Producers: Lena Góra, Friends With Benefits’ Marta Lewandowska.

Prediction: WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBA (domestic, international).

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).