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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2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ana Lily Amirpour’s Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon

Festival Predictions

Eric Lavallée - November 19, 2020

A Sundance Film Festival darling back in 2014 for the Iranian vampire spaghetti western A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (read review), she would...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Karen Cinorre’s Mayday

Festival Predictions

Eric Lavallée - November 19, 2020

Getting to go creatively madcap with art/set decor on the Isabella Rossellini starring Green Porno series, New Yorker Karen Cinorre made the jump to...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dean Fleischer-Camp’s Marcel the Shell

Festival Predictions

Eric Lavallée - November 19, 2020

A stop-motion animated short film that took on a life of its own and snowballed into all sorts of creative items after Marcel the...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ian Samuels’ The Map of Tiny Perfect Things

Festival Predictions

Eric Lavallée - November 19, 2020

Rising starlet Kathryn Newton (who we just saw in Freaky - read review) toplines this sophomore feature -- an Amazon Studios backed fantasy project...