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Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #68. Maryam Keshavarz’s Vulture Club

Published on January 16, 2018

Vulture Club

You couldn’t have asked for a better calling card in her 2011 narrative feature. Circumstance debuted at Sundance and was a critical darling, and finally after a quick stint with one episode of Queen Sugar, Maryam Keshavarz commenced production on the NYC, under the radar political thriller sophomore project late in the 2017 calendar with none other than Susan Sarandon.

No plot details are available, but we imagine shooting could continue somewhere else globally. Composer Gingger Shankar is on board with cinematography being provided by Drew Daniels (It Comes at Night) and a noteworthy personality among the producers is J.C. Chandor.

Release Date/Prediction: Euro film festival debut — perhaps a premiere slot at Locarno or Venice.

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).