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2012 Sundance Predictions: Jessica Oreck’s The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga
Jessica Oreck was at last year's festival with her short film, Venus - but she broke onto the docu scene with Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo. She continues in the format but leaves the bugs at home with the fresh Cinereach funded docu with a unique title, The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (which she discussed in our interview with her). This could either fit in the World Docu Comp or Spotlight Doc section.
2012 Sundance Predictions: Untitled Joe Berlinger Paul Simon Documentary
Since his 1992 Sundance winning debut Brother's Keeper, Joe Berlinger has been a mainstay with the festival. He last premiered 2009's Crude at the fest and recently mentioned that he is hoping to bring a Paul Simon doc to the fest - we expect it there and we expect it to be nothing like his last music-related doc, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster.
2012 Sundance Predictions: Untitled Mark Webber Drama
Part of the clan of actors à la Jesse Eisenberg, Lou Pucci Taylor and Paul Dano who've built their careers on solid indie material and as a consequence, could be tour guides for Park City's Main Street's many nooks and crannies, Mark Webber follows his directorial debut Explicit Ills (which preemed at SXSW in 2008) with a drama that might not yet have a title but does include Michael Cera, Shannyn Sossamon, Jason Ritter and Amanda Seyfried (with who he interviewed in this comedy short).
2012 Sundance Predictions: Lucy Mulloy’s Una Noche
Profiled in our predictions list last year and in our "In the Pipeline" series, I guess Lucy Mulloy is several steps closer to a film festival birth - and Sundance certainly looks like great spot to showcase Una Noche. World Dramatic Competition spot would be appropriate.
2012 Sundance Predictions: Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
A different kind of DIY model that I'm sure fest programmers appreciate, after building their presence via TV and online sketches the comedic duo of Eric Wareheim and Tim Heidecker landed a feature filmmaking gig not so contrarian to the budgets of films presented at the fest with the aptly titled, Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie. Featuring tons of the Funny or Die crew, Magnolia Pictures have pegged a release date of March 3rd and might want to feature it at the festival in the Premieres section.
