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2012 Sundance Predictions: Mads Brügger’s The Ambassador
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.
2012 Sundance Predictions: Julie Delpy’s 2 Days in New York
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.
2012 Sundance Predictions: Eddie Alcazar’s 0000
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.
Fox Searchlight Knows Talent; Borderline Crew Sign Two-Year First-Look Deal
They're a creative filmmaking model to emulate. Borderline Film's Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin and Josh Mond have tied the knot with Fox Searchlight for a two-year, first-look deal. After a courtship phase that began the moment when Martha Marcy May Marlene was picked up by Searchlight at Sundance, the indie studio made a no-brainer move to be the first in line and see what other original masterworks Campos, Durkin and Mond can come up with.
Victor Quinaz Makes ‘Imperial Palace’ his HQ; Killer Films and Before the Door Back Katrina Pic
Hurricane Katrina's path of destruction has inevitably become a source of inspiration and the backdrop for new filmic material as is the case for Imperial Palace - a new Killer Films and Before The Door Pictures venture that'll go into production sometime in the spring of 2012.
