Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #31. Trey Edward Shults’ Waves

Date:

January 25, 2019

Waves

Rapidly transitioning from sophomore film club and into production with his third oeuvre, Trey Edward Shults was the talk of the town with his award winning SXSW, Cannes price of a Volkswagen debut Krisha. Filming on Waves took place over the past summer, with Lucas Hedges, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Taylor Russell, Alexa Demie and Sterling K. Brown all cast in the Florida set backdrop. Regular DP in Drew Daniels and a Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross score assures a bonafide fest if A24 decides to move in that direction.

Gist: Two young couples experience growing up and falling in love.

Release Date/Prediction: A24 made a cool 13 million with the summer release of It Comes at Night (read review) – they’ll be hard at work to get some Croisette traction and perhaps use the same release date strategy.

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Eric Lavallée https://www.ericlavallee.com

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury 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 was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. His top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson). He is a Golden Globes Voter.

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