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2011 Sundance Predictions: Braden King’s HERE
I sound like a broken record trying to predict when Braden King's HERE will finally have its world premiere. I wasn't totally off when I mentioned the Sundance/Cannes supported filmmaker would make it at last year's edition, but King came packing "Postcards from HERE" - a chronicle of the production. This year we expectt: a final film to be shown in Sundance and Berlin.
2011 Sundance Predictions: Susan Youssef’s Habibi Rasak Kharban
IFP Independent Filmmaker Lab, Cinereach, and even Richard Linklater (who'll be at the fest this year presenting the 20th year anniversary projection of Slackers) have all had a helping hand in writer/director Susan Youssef's Habibi Rasak Kharban. Youssef, a profiled Filmmaker Magazine 25 New Face should be hitting Park City once again - she screened one of her shorts at the fest.
2011 Sundance Predictions: Rashaad Ernesto Green’s Gun Hill Road
If Rashaad Ernesto Green's (see pic above) debut lands in Park City, it'll be representing the tough streets located in the Bronx. Selected for the 2010 Tribeca All Access Program, Gun Hill Road was a recipient of the 2009 Spike Lee Fellowship, and this fall, was selected for the 2010 IFP Project Forum. Among Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces list, this would be Green's second trip to the festival, following the Sundance selected short, 2009's Choices.
2011 Sundance Predictions: Lance Daly’s The Good Doctor
Kisses director Lance Daly made a splash with Kisses two years back, that quickly secured him this shot in L.A. project which includes plenty of Sundance alumni in Orlando Bloom, Riley Keough, Taraji P. Henson, Michael Peña and a small cameo from J.K. Simmons. The Good Doctor, a drama thriller would aspire to a Premieres category world preem to be followed by a possible showing in Berlin.
2011 Sundance Predictions: Michael Collins’ Give Up Tomorrow
Michael Collins' Give Up Tomorrow would appear primed and ready for the festival. Working alongside editor Eric Daniel Metzgar (his film Reporter preemed at Sundance in 2009), this documentary film has received support from Tribeca All Access program, the Sundance Institute's summer Documentary Edit and Story Lab, and more recently IFP's 2010 Independent Filmmaker Labs.
