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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Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Kinology

Film Festivals

Eric Lavallée - May 17, 2012

This year the Grégoire Melin's Kinology can do no wrong - they nabbed the best real-estate on the Croisette and reminded us that Harmony Korine's...

Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Inferno Ent.

Film Festivals

Eric Lavallée - May 17, 2012

Sales agent and Prod co. Inferno Ent.'s Jim Seibel and Bill Johnson must totally be stoked at finding one of their own in the...

Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Hanway Films

Film Festivals

Eric Lavallée - May 17, 2012

They might only have a trio of Out of Competition items in Bernardo Bertolucci's Me and You, Laurent Bouzereau's Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir,...

Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Fortissimo Films

Film Festivals

Eric Lavallée - May 17, 2012

Michael J. Werner's Fortissimo Films was surprisingly almost shut out from showing in any of the sections at Cannes (they're repping the Un Certain...

Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Focus Features Int.

Indie Film News

Eric Lavallée - May 17, 2012

Focus Features Int. have the honor of opening Cannes with Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson's seventh film and it appears that the future is definitely...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

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Interview: Théodore Pellerin – Unifrance 10 to Watch 2026 | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

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At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, we got to...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

Interviews June 4, 2026 0

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.