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L'enfant chéri of the festival, Lynn Shelton has showcased Humpday (Sundance '09) and Your Sister's Sister (Sundance '12) and by all logic should be...

It played extremely well at the Toronto Int. Festival. and got quickly picked up by IFC FIlms. With a pegged spring 2012 theatrical release planned, I can see Your Sister's Sister have its U.S premiere in Sundance's Spotlight section (best on the world film festival scene) or worse case scenario find itself at SXSW for a buzz showing weeks before the launch.

With a total of 50+1 films from around the world, the Contemporary World Cinema programme could very well be a film festival in its own right. Once again loaded in Cannes North American premieres from, the section also includes world preem titles: Xiaolu Guo's UFO in her Eyes, Lynn Shelton's Your Sister's Sister (starring Emily Blunt see pic above), Nacho Vigalondo's Extraterrestrial and Christophe Van Rompaey's Lena. Among Cannes titles we can vouch for, which will play out in the section and happen to tell us that this world is not healthy state of affairs we have Andrey Zvyagintsev's brilliant Elena, Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala , and Markus Schleinzer' Michael.

I was one of those who thought Humpday was among the best comedies of 2009 that is until the wheels fell off at the midway point. I'm thinking Shelton has the ability to swoon moviegoers with ease making Mumblecore little bit more accessible to accidental audiences. I'm guessing she'll seal the deal due to professional thesps Rosemarie DeWitt and Emily Blunt and will once again bring out the best in Duplass - it what should be an unassuming, yet flavorful West Coast offering.

Among the projects in the Shelton's pipeline, we find a project with Sherman Alexie, and now you can add Joshua Ferris’ recent novel Then We Came To An End for Anne Carey and Ted Hope's This is That Productions (their upcoming slate includes James Gunn's Super and Anton Corbijn's The American).