Eric Lavallée

IFP have announced the lucky ten projects that have been selected to participate in this year’s narrative edition of Independent Filmmaker Labs, which officially started yesterday. Among the selected projects, we find a couple we've already been tracking and will probably be seeing this coming January in Park City. We have Dee Rees' Pariah, Andrew Dosunmu's Restless City, the much anticipated Yelling To The Sky from Victoria Mahoney and I'm adding Brady Kiernan's Stuck Between Stations as a film to watch out for.

Love Like Poison is about what you let in, what you give up and what you take ownership of at a tender age of fourteen – delicately asserted by a solid debut performance from a first time actress who looks the part.

When in Doubt: Quillevere Grasps those Butterflies in the Stomach.

The Weinsteins have grabbed the North American rights to what will be a hotly pursued title on the Fall festival circuit. While Julian Schnabel declined an unpopular out of comp showing at Cannes, he'll have curators from Telluride, TIFF, NYFF and Venice all trying to grab what I deem will be an awards race frontrunner. The next question is: what kind of release is the company plotting for Miral and where will it fit alongside titles such as The Company Men, Nowhere Boy on the 8th of October, 26th of November they'll be launching The King's Speech and 31st is reserved for Blue Valentine.

Though they'll have gone a long stretch without a theatrical release, L.A based Freestyle Releasing are still kicking. Today comes the announcement that they've grabbed the rights to Brit comedy thriller Wild Target and are setting it up for an October release. Despite a big name cast, can't say the film by helmer Jonathan Lynn was on my radar.