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2012 Sundance Predictions: Edet Belzberg’s Watchers of the Sky
Belzberg won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for Children Underground (2001) and she last attended the fest with The Recruiter in 2008, and while Park City has done Darfur before my feeling is that Watchers of the Sky (which works from a Pulitzer Prize winner and goes about the region via the POV of modern day heroes aka as humanitarians) will find a slot in the U.S docu or Spotlight Docs section.
2012 Sundance Predictions: M.Blash’s The Wait
Another title that I pegged as a prediction for last year's fest, but not only did this not show up in Park City but M. Blash's sophomore pic wasn't shown anywhere else including perhaps the more probable lieu of Cannes (where his debut film. Lying was shown back in 2006). Photographed by the excellent Kasper Tuxen (3 Backyards, Beginners), I hope to see this second effort will debut at the beginning of the year. The Wait stars Jena Malone, Chloë Sevigny and Luke Grimes.
2012 Sundance Predictions: Jessica Oreck’s The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga
Jessica Oreck was at last year's festival with her short film, Venus - but she broke onto the docu scene with Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo. She continues in the format but leaves the bugs at home with the fresh Cinereach funded docu with a unique title, The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (which she discussed in our interview with her). This could either fit in the World Docu Comp or Spotlight Doc section.
2012 Sundance Predictions: Untitled Joe Berlinger Paul Simon Documentary
Since his 1992 Sundance winning debut Brother's Keeper, Joe Berlinger has been a mainstay with the festival. He last premiered 2009's Crude at the fest and recently mentioned that he is hoping to bring a Paul Simon doc to the fest - we expect it there and we expect it to be nothing like his last music-related doc, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster.
2012 Sundance Predictions: Untitled Mark Webber Drama
Part of the clan of actors à la Jesse Eisenberg, Lou Pucci Taylor and Paul Dano who've built their careers on solid indie material and as a consequence, could be tour guides for Park City's Main Street's many nooks and crannies, Mark Webber follows his directorial debut Explicit Ills (which preemed at SXSW in 2008) with a drama that might not yet have a title but does include Michael Cera, Shannyn Sossamon, Jason Ritter and Amanda Seyfried (with who he interviewed in this comedy short).
