Festival Predictions

2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Gibney’s The Road Back

Published on November 20, 2012

No stranger to the Sundance Film Festival, over the recent years, Alex Gibney has premiered Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Sundance ’05), Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (Sundance ’08), and CASINO JACK and the United States of Money (Sundance ’10). Currently on tap, Gibney has four projects – Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream, Finding Fela!, an untitled WikiLeaks Doc, and is producing an untitled Eagles Project (visit his site), but we think the one docu (recently updated by IndieWIRE’s Anne Thompson to be in the final stages of completion) that we might see next is Lance Armstrong: The Road Back, which is currently in need of a new title and perhaps a different climax than the one that was originally anticipated.

Gist: This is an exposition of cyclist Lance Armstrong as he trains for his eighth Tour de France victory.

Production Co./Producers: Alex Gibney

Prediction: Documentary Premieres and surely a showing in Cannes.

U.S. Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics.

Related Topics:2013 Sundance Film Festival, Alex Gibney, Lance Armstrong: The Road Back

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).