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2012 Sundance Predictions: J.T. Petty’s Hellbenders
This one might be a little of a stretch, but perhaps a decade since J.T. Petty blasted on the scene with Soft for Digging a $6000 feature that was selected for the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Up the budget a little more, insert 3D technology and add thesps Clancy Brown, Dan Fogler and Clifton Collins Jr. to a genre-twisting nouveau horror film and Hellbenders might be the hot pick-up title in the Park City at Midnight section.
2012 Sundance Predictions: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ He Loves Me
Will Fox Searchlight add a title from their 2012 inventory to the Sundance line-up? We've got a pair of Searchlight items (see our number #37 pick) that fit the Park City premiere mold with a slight advantage going to He Loves Me - the sophomore film from the team of the 2006 Sundance break out hit Little Miss Sunshine. If included, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' latest would most certainly grab a Premieres category showing.
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.
