Eric Lavallée

Michael Tully (Septien), Todd Rohal (The Catechism Cataclysm) and Lucky McKee (The Woman featuring Amazonian beauty Pollyanna McIntosh) are seven of the eight filmmakers who'll be premiering their latest films in a Park City at Midnight Section. On paper, this year's eight selected titles is perhaps the best since I've been going to the fest and shows that should be quick sell outs are Hobo with A Shotgun, Corman’s World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel and the international preem for Troll Hunter will remind some of The Blair With Project from several years back.

Yesterday, Braden King's HERE was selected among 16 films in Sundance's U.S Dramatic Competition. Earlier in the year, I ran into the filmmaker who was invited at the festival as part of a panel discussion on The Discovery Process and how his feature debut lends itself to both the cinematic and scientific experience.

Who better to film a 70's love triangle in a sun-splashed Italian village than a director who painted romance and tragedy in vibrant Visconti-esque like hues with I Am Love. So Ruby Films producers Alison Owen and Paul Trijbits have decided to go all "Italian" with their mafia thriller, setting up Luca Guadagnino with Corsica '72.

Among some of the noteworthy items on the 2006 Black List that received the least number of votes (or wasn't read by enough prod co. insiders) we find Martin McDonagh's In Bruges which received 7 votes and picking up a pair of votes we have: Lewis Colick's The Fighter which I imagine is the same project as the one that is receiving it's Oscar bid release next week --- it has gone through many rewrites and writers. We also have the first screenplay version for Life of Pi which was penned by Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Guillame Laurent, Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon which I imagine not many folks had the chance to read and Ron Harwood's Diving Bell & The Butterfly.

After I did the first interview with Stella as Shelly Brown, I went home and examined the footage. She was a fractured character so it made sense to divide the ways in which we see her, to fragment these pieces like a mosaic.