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) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael R. Roskam’s Animal Rescue

Fox Searchlight have used the annual Utah set fest as both an acquisitions point and launching pad. Just last year they had the pair...

2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Phil Alden Robinson’s The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

It wouldn't be the first time a veteran helmer with a Hollywoodized filmography cracked the line-up and seeing that he directed mainstream titles such...

2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s An African Spring

Last year we had a docu about the aftermath/current state of the Arab Spring (Jehane Noujaim's The Square), so keeping with the same subject...

2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Claudia Llhosa’s Aloft

Madeinusa, her debut film, was a 2006 Sundance selected pic, while her sophomore drama The Milk of Sorrow was a winner in Berlin, we...

2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kirsten Johnson’s A Blind Eye

As a cinematographer, Kirsten Johnson has been a staple of the festival with the likes of Darfur Now, The Oath and more recently, The...

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The Loneliest Man in Town | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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