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2014 Sundance “Trading Cards” Series: #8. Jonny Mars (Hellion)

Published on January 15, 2014

Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2013 discoveries”…
Jonny Mars: 1. Wendy Davis. 2. I AM NOT A HIPSTER. 3. ENLIGHTENED the series

Lavallee: You and Deke are among the few carryover actors from the original short were you aware back then that this could/should elongated, a broader in scope feature length? And are you incarnating the same character this time out?
Mars: Yes. We all saw the potential in adapting the short. Aaron Paul plays the character I played in the original. Maybe you‘ve heard of him?

Lavallee: Describe to the future viewer what Duncan’s POV of the world he sees in front of him?
Mars: Duncan’s POV would make a great t-shirt: Beers, Babes and Baseball.

Lavallee: Last year you had a fairly unique Sundance experience with four films included in the festival. How do you look back at having one year’s worth of performances unveiled to the public in less than a week?
Mars: Having four films premiere at Sundance in 2013 opened a lot of doors. And behind those doors were a lot of open bars.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).