Annual Top Films Lists

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #48. Jordana Spiro’s Night Comes On

Published on January 17, 2018

Night Comes On

The highest ranked directorial debut on our top 100 belongs to Night Comes On. We’re big on the short films that come out of Sundance, and Skin announced a new major voice in filmmaking. Actress turned filmmaker Jordana Spiro took her debut in 2014 Sundance Screenwriter, Director and Composer Labs and her co-writer on the project was also a 2014 Time Warner Fellow. An Adrienne Shelly Foundation Fellowship winner, lensing began sometime in the month of April in Philadelphia.

Written by Spiro and Angelica Nwandu, this stars Dominique Fishback, Tatum Hall, John Earl Jelks, Max Casella and James McDaniel. Angel LaMere (Fishback) is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister that could destroy their future. We’re expecting big things for this micro indie.

Release Date/Prediction: This was selected for the NEXT section at the Sundance Film Festival and will have its international premiere at Rotterdam in the The Big Screen Competition.

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).