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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2012 Sundance Predictions: Matt Piedmont’s Casa de mi Padre

In my books, among best films to have been shown at last year's edition was Matt Piedmont's award winning Brick Novax's Diary (parts I & II). Casa de mi Padre - Piedmont's feature film debut as been a lock for a while now (see trailer), my thinking is this knee-slapper with subtitles is looking for the most ideal fest to tickle audiences and get a distributor to budge and pick up this oddball concept of a film that will play better as an indie film than a studio pic. Alumni Park City members Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal star alongside the Funny or Die folk.

2012 Sundance Predictions: Marshall Lewy’s California Solo

Sundance tends to add films to their line-up that have a musical element -- it could allow for a film like California Solo, a drama toplined by Robert Carlyle to make the cut. Produced by Mynette Louie (Children of Invention), Marshall Lewy's sophomore pic could crack the U.S Dramatic Comp or Premieres category line-up.

2012 Sundance Predictions: Jamie Babbit’s Breaking the Girl

Described by Jamie Babbit as a "genre-trashy fun; gratuitous girl-on-girl make-out scenes and three-inch heels", Breaking the Girl which is based on a screenplay by Mark Distefano and American Psycho's Guinevere Turner stars indie actors Madeline Zima, Shawn Ashmore and Agnes Bruckner. Having presented a pair of short films almost a decade back (her 2002 short “Stuck,” was a winner of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival's Special Mention Jury Prize), Babbit's (middle person in random set pic above) latest would be a good fit for a Park City at Midnight showing.

2012 Sundance Predictions: Matt Ruskin’s Booster

A 2011 Narrative Filmmaker Lab Participant, Matt Ruskin's thriller starring Seymour Cassel might be considered as a longshot as the only logical category fit for a Park City showing might be the NEXT section. Nonetheless, Booster is produced by an up-and-comer producer in Andrea Roa, and Ruskin's does have Sundance connections in his past - his feature directorial debut, The Hip Hop Project, was aired on the Sundance Channel and he was a consulting producer on the Sundance preemed docu William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe.

2012 Sundance Predictions: Katie Aselton’s Black Rock

With filming wrapped up in July, Katie Aselton can expect to be welcomed with open arms from the festival that showcased her directing debut in 2009's The Freebie. Shot in Maine, Black Rock is described as a Deliverance cast with girls (Lake Bell and Kate Bosworth) this thriller would be perfectly suited for a Park City at Midnight showing.

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