Eric Lavallée

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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Oscar Foreign Film nominees: L.A.-based members make incoherent selections!?

I've only seen about a dozen of the 64 films that the voters had to see - but I think it is safe to...

Berlinale Co-production Market: Established directors use resource for financing new projects

Like the Sundacne lab experience and what the Rotterdam film festival does for burgeoning filmmakers with CineMart, the Berlinale Co-production Market (a 3-day event...

Devil Came on Horseback: docu turning into feature film

Below is a description of the emotionally jarring documentary film that preemed this past summer. Using the exclusive photographs and first hand testimony of former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle, THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK takes the viewer on an emotionally charged journey into the heart of Darfur, Sudan, where an Arab run government is systematically executing a plan to rid the province of its black African citizens. As an official military observer, Steidle had access to parts of the country that no journalist could penetrate. Ultimately frustrated by the inaction of the international community, Steidle resigned and returned to the US to expose the images and stories of lives systematically destroyed. Sundberg and Stern’s film allows us to witness Steidle’s transformation from soldier to observer to witness and, finally, to passionate activist and moral hero. Renowned New York Times Op-Ed writer Nicholas Kristof published Steidle’s photographs in his groundbreaking series on Darfur entitled “The American Witness” which marked the first time photographs were included on those pages.

Cristina Khuly’s Shoot Down: Poster One Sheet

There are two classes of documentary filmmakers - those who find a topic and then document it and then those who are hit on...

Theron takes short ‘Road’ to McCarthy adaptation

Here is a rare treat: back-to-back years of Cormac McCarthy book to screen adaptations. After No Country for Old Men, 2008 will give us...

Breaking

IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Lucia Aleñar Iglesias (Forastera)

IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month highlights an emerging talent...

Only the Lonely: Ulrich Seidl Travels to Dark Tourism Places with ‘Distances’

The folks art Cineuropa are giving us a major...

History Repeating Itself: Magnus von Horn Train Hops with Jeremy Strong in ‘The Passenger’

Hopefully at some point it'll lose the over-used, generic...
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