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Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #13. Omniboat: A Fastboat Fantasia

Published on February 8, 2019

Omniboat: A Fastboat Fantasia

Lopsided, tonally off, and rarely complimentary, portmanteau films are more often that not miss than hit, but what happens when we mix Miami speed cigar boats and it’s the Bow + Arrow Ent. (Madeline’s Madeline) and the Borscht Corporation folk who are the captains of the deck? With Omniboat: A Fastboat Fantasia we’re expecting craziness to ensue with a collection of stories from a collection of filmmakers that have yet to be confirmed (however Filmmaker Magazine’s Dan Schoenbrun did mention the likes of Lucas Levya, Jillian Mayer, Bernardo Britto, Terence Nance, Celia Rowlson-Hall, the Daniels) and some name actors with filming having taken place last summer.

Gist: This is an epic Miami adventure told though a series of collaboratively created interwoven narratives centered around a sick cigarette speedboat.

Release Date/Prediction: With were expecting an unveiling at Sundance, now we think this might end up playing at Locarno.

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).