Dean Fleischer-Camp Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

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2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dean Fleischer-Camp’s Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

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2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dean Fleischer-Camp’s Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Published on November 25, 2021

A surprise world premiere selection at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival, we originally predicted that Dean Fleischer-Camp‘s Marcel the Shell with Shoes On was headed to Sundance….and it might still be. Recently picked up by the A24 folks, this could be part of the Spotlight section (last year, the online version of the festival had reduced the number to only two films). The stop-motion animated film will likely have a lengthy film fest run in 2022 before some theatrical drop.

Gist: The film centers on Marcel, an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. But when a documentary filmmaker discovers them amongst the clutter of his Airbnb, the short film he posts online brings Marcel millions of passionate fans, as well as unprecedented dangers and a new hope at finding his long-lost family.

Production Co./Producers: Dean Fleischer-Camp, Andrew Goldman, Elisabeth Holm, Caroline Kaplan, Terry Leonard, Jenny Slate, Paul Mezey.

Prediction: SPOTLIGHT.

U.S. Distributor: A24.

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).