2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mike Cahill’s I: Origins

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Fans of Mike Cahill’s feature, Special Jury Prize winning debut Another Earth (Sundance ’11) were elated when it was announced that Cahill and Brit Marling would re-team for I: Origins. Safe to say that Cahill’s sci-fi drama starring Marling, Michael Pitt, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey (and a strong supporting cast) is well prepped for a festival preem in Park City — production ended in April this year in NYC and we think what will be served up is the early dark horse candidate for the festival’s Alfred P. Sloan Prize.

Gist: This connects the lives of the most unlikely people from around the globe. One doctor on the brink of a scientific discovery which will have historical ramifications, travels in search for the one person, a young girl, who can prove or disprove his theory. The story follows the incredible journeys which bring these strangers together, and proves there is no separating matters of science and matters of the heart.

Production Co./Producers: Cahill, Verisimilitude’s Hunter Gray & Alex Orlovsky

Prediction: U.S. Dramatic Competition

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

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Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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