A Love Song(the much traveled and critically acclaimed Sundance 2022 title) filmmaker Max Walker-Silverman is back in his home state of Colorado for round two. Production on his currently untitled project (coined as a rebuilding project) is set with producers Dan Janvey (won Oscar for Nomadland), Paul Mezey and Jesse Hope. Hope and Janvey were producers on his debut film. Here is the logline, we’ll try to find out who will be cast in the lead roles.
After losing the old family ranch to a wildfire, a cowboy, Dusty, winds up in a small FEMA camp in the vast American West. The last of a long line of ranchers, he’s stranded between the legacy of his land and the changes to it. But he begins to reconnect with his young daughter, Callie Rose, and his ex wife, Ruby, and ultimately the neighborhood around him that he never chose–a world of people who all lost their houses like he did. Together they find an unlikely community–and maybe even hope, beauty, and a future in this wild place.
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).
