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Maximum Sentence: McCaul Lombardi & Crew Get Paroled for Porterfield’s “Soller’s Point”

McCaul Lombardi (who’ll be on the Croisette in the featured Andrea Arnold’s American Honey quartet comprised of Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf and Arielle Holmes) will topline and Tashiana Washington (Gimme the Loot), recording Artist Breezay and veteran actor James Belushi (who’ll next be seen in Katie Says Goodbye) are part of the make-up of indie Baltimore based helmer Matt Porterfield‘s Soller’s Point. The announcement made by the filmmaker via social medias certainly signals that production is due to begin shortly on the highly anticipated final film in what is called loosely-formed trilogy. This is being produced by Ryan Zacarias (Entertainment), Jordan Mintzer, and Steve Holmgren.

Gist: Serving parole on detention in his father’s house, an ex-offender finds the adjustment to society and the workforce more difficult than the confines of home.

Worth Noting: In between features, Porterfield produced the Berlin International Film Festival preemd short, Take What You Can Carry (excerpt below).

Do We Care?: A cinema that reminds us of Tim Sutton’s output, we wouldn’t be all that surprised if Porterfield’s fourth feature feels more compact, maybe more scripted than Putty Hill and/or I Used to Be Darker. This is something to watch for in American micro indie cinema in 2017.

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).

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