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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Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #26. Alma Har’el’s Honey Boy

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Eric Lavallée - February 8, 2019

Honey Boy Not unlike Kitty Green, Alma Har’el moves from a pair of free flowing in form docu features in Bombay Beach and LoveTrue into a...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #27. Kitty Green’s Untitled DAY in the LIFE of a Harvey Weinstein Assistant Project

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Eric Lavallée - February 8, 2019

Currently in green light mode on her third feature, formal storytelling will once again receive the boundary pushing nip and tuck inventiveness of Kitty Green who...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #28. Jim Cummings’ Untitled Werewolf Film

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Eric Lavallée - February 8, 2019

Snowballing from a celebrated '16 award-winning short film (Thunder Road) into a SXSW-winning, John Cassavetes Award nominated and critically acclaim feature debut (here is...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #29. J.D. Dillard’s Sweetheart

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Eric Lavallée - February 8, 2019

Sweetheart 2019 should be a considerable leap year for J.D. Dillard, as both his sophomore film Sweetheart and the project he co-wrote in Joe Sill's Stray...