One of the projects at the Sundance Institute’s 2017 Screenwriters Lab was a film called ‘Omni Loop Blues.’ Flash forward into 2024 and Bernardo Britto‘s Omni Loop premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival and is about to launch theatrically via the Magnolia Pictures folks. Britto was born in Rio de Janeiro, grew up in the U.S. and gave us some award-winning shorts prior to his 2016 directorial debut Jacqueline (Argentine) (a Sundance NEXT Section selection – see our trading card for him). Here is our interview with the filmmaker at the Sundance directly after the labs:
A quantum physicist (Mary-Louise Parker) finds herself stuck in a time loop, with a black hole growing in her chest and only a week to live. When she meets a gifted student (Ayo Edibiri), they team up to save her life — and to unlock the mysteries of time travel.
