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Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #29. Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck’s When She Runs

Published on January 31, 2018

When She Runs

When they aren’t working on docus, they’re immersed in fiction and when they’re not working on features, they’re occupied by the short form. With a micro indie output on par with Nathan Silver and the Safdies, filmmakers Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck return with their third feature which stars Kirstin Anderson (second collab with the filmmakers). Making waves out of ripples, When She Runs follows in the footsteps of 2013’s After Forty Years from Yesterday, and Indie Spirits Someone to Watch Award nominated 2015’s God Bless the Child.

With some carry over actor elements from their previous film, details on the project were revealed via Filmmaker Mag’s Dan Schoenbrun, but this counts as collab number four with producer Laura Heberton.

Release Date/Prediction: Having just wrapped up in December, either a return to Locarno (where their debut premiered) or Venice Film Fest sidebar.

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).