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Video Interview: Alexandre Dostie – I’ll End Up in Jail (Short Film) – 2020 Sundance Film Festival

An award-winning film that began it’s festival life at TIFF in 2019, and would hit Park City and prestigious Clermont-Ferrand early 2020, Quebecois filmmaker Alexandre Dostie follows up his baseball diamond coming-of-ager Mutants with the equally darkly comedic true break free exploration of self in I’ll End Up in Jail. A filmmaker with flare who loves to explore small town characters who squirm and struggle out of impossible moral conflicts, I sat down with Dostie during Sundance to discuss his support for short form (he owns a distribution co. Travelling Distribution specializing in shorts) and how he utilizes his visual took box to his advantage and the enigmatic character he created in Maureen (Martine Francke). Dostie will next be embarking on his feature debut titled, Shape.


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).

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