Eric Lavallée

We'll find out the exact line-up soon enough and I'll see just how my predictions pan out for the upcoming edition of Sundance.

I think there are only three film festivals on the circuit where filmmakers and producers are really conscious on how a production start date my ultimately affect their film festival status. There are the heavyweights of Cannes and Venice, and then there is Sundance. For the better part of the last 15 years, we are talking about the Reservoir Dogs era, the festival has jumped started thousands of careers and perhaps the best sign of adulation is the creation of competing festivals in SXSW and Tribeca. Here are five more prediction picks, you can find the complete list of predictions by clicking here.

We are capping off the Sundance predictions today. Here are another five predictions for the upcoming 2010 edition.

In John Cooper's first year as head honcho, we'll get to see a new sidebar going by the name of "NEXT". Whether this is just a more organized, fresh coat of paint to distinguish films of the festival that don't receive the major buzz (for reasons x, y and z) or a new view a newly shaped mandate, the festival offers "independent" films that provide the star quotient and stick to their roots.

If my predix come true, this will be a fest heavy on first time filmmakers in the feature length film categories, which is nothing new of course. I've listed four new names below that could make their big time debuts at the fest.