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2012 Sundance Predictions: Daniel Algrant’s Greetings from Tim Buckley
Which Jeff Buckley film will get out of the gate first? It's looking like Greetings from Tim Buckley - the non-biopic directed by Daniel Algrant (People I Know) might have the Sundance advantage as it was wrapped in the late summer. Park City's Main Street loves the movie and music tie-ins and cinematographer Andrij Parekh (Blue Valentine and Half Nelson) brought his magic to the film.
2012 Sundance Predictions: Margaret Brown’s The Great Invisible
For the record I'm horrible at predicting what docs show up Sundance, but we're hopeful that after showing The Order of Myths in 2008 that Margaret Brown will be back spilling her third doc into the U.S Docu Comp. section. The Great Invisible received a production grant through the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and recently received some love from the Cinereach folks.
2012 Sundance Predictions: Marc Turtletaub’s Gods Behaving Badly
A major supplier of Sundance films (Little Miss Sunshine, SherryBaby, Sunshine Cleaning and Our Idiot Brother) over the years as a producer at Big Beach, if there is a venue where Marc Turtletaub should show off his filmmaker it would be in the condo hills of Park City. Problem isn't the heavy star-studded cast or the comedy's logline but the actual timing -- they'd have to work overtime to have Gods Behaving Badly ready for the fest as shooting appears to have just wrapped.
2012 Sundance Predictions: Christopher Neil’s Goats
While cinephiles await "Coppola" output this year from Roman (who is finally going to second his GQ debut) it is Francis Ford's nephew Christopher Neil who may get to showcase his coming-of-age comedy first. After holoding onto the book rights for almost a decade, this is already in the can and has an ensemble of Sundance vets (Vera Farmiga, Ty Burrell, David Duchovny, Keri Russell , Minnie Driver, Justin Kirk and Dakota Johnson) and features what could be the fest's breakout star in the young Graham Phillips. Look for Goats to perhaps receive a Premieres showing.
2012 Sundance Predictions: Julius Onah’s The Girl Is in Trouble
We can bet that this picture is a lock --- a 2012 debut was probably a more accurate prediction for a festival premiere to Julius Onah's debut feature. I predicted that The Girl Is in Trouble and the Filmmaker Mag 25 New Face Onah would be in Park City -- that production still stands. If this has an edgy, mean streak in it, a Park City at Midnight showing would be welcome.
