Eric Lavallée

Last year we had Little Birds and Pariah, and if finished in time (filming was completed in September), this year we could find the feature version based on Olivia Silver's 209 accepted short Little Canyon (see pic above - watch here). Arcadia sees Sundance regular John Hawkes play father to a trio of children which includes Kendall Toole (who once again plays the same role) and the film's POV, the child in the car's backseat played by an actress (Ryan Simpkins) who might be poised to break out bigger in Park City as a thirteen year-old than the toddler part she had in another Park City drama, Sherrybaby. Look for this to be added to the U.S Dramatic comp category.

The youngest from the clan, Nicholas Jarecki should follow in the footsteps of his older brothers who have both presented films in Park City - Eugene (Season Of The Lifterbees - 1993 docu short) and at least two feature docs that I can think of...while Andrew Jarecki was the talk of the fest in 2003 for Capturing the Friedmans. With filming finished back in before the summer broke out, Arbitrage is poised for a Premieres showing and for a bidding war in such touchy wall street times.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance back in 2010 for The Red Chapel, Mads Brügger pointed his GPS towards Central African Republic - where according to the filmmaker, poses as "the Man with the Yellow Hat gone bad" - the Curious George character but in the diamond trading mode. The Ambassador receives it world premiere by opening the IDFA later this month and it would logically make sense for him to continue the festival circuit showings by landing in Park City 8 weeks later with a slot opening in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.

2 Days in Paris premiered at the Berlin Int. Film Festival in 2007 and we think there is no reason why 2 Days in New York won't be presented there as well. Technically out of the way is her 2011 film Skylab, which was shown at San Sebastián, so my thinking is this shot in the U.S sequel without a North American distributor might want to logically make a first pitstop in Park City.

The probability of Eddie Alcazar's debut film NOT being accepted into Sundance, NOT winning the Alfred P. Sloan Prize (Sundance's award for anything themed in science/technology) and NOT being selected by the Sitges-type fests is next to "zero". Thanks to Twitchfilm's Todd Brown, Filmmaker Magazine's Jason Guerrasio and a sweet-looking trailers released midway in 2011, 0000 looks primed for a long year of showings on the festival circuit -- our word to first time filmmaker: invest in some serious jet-setter luggage.