Festival Predictions

2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Drake Doremus Drama

Published on November 22, 2012

I’m betting that Drake Doremus’s currently untitled drama will make it three for three at Sundance with Douchebag (Sundance ’10), Grand Jury Prize winning Like Crazy (Sundance ’11) or four for four in Park City when you include his debut film, the Slamdance selected Spooner. Once again teaming with Felicity Jones, this also stars Guy Pearce, Kyle MacLachlan, Amy Ryan and Alexandra Wentworth, filming on his latest began in August of 2011 – so with the exception of no title, there won’t be last minute preparations on this one and surely bidding war preparations might already be in the works.

Gist: This is quoted as being a “tense story about an inappropriate relationship between a young student, an exchange student and a school teacher.”

Production Co./Producers: Indian Paintbrush’s Steven M. Rales and Mark Roybal, Crispy Films’ Jonathan Schwartz and Andrea Sperling (Smashed, Nobody Walks)

Prediction: Premieres Program

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Related Topics:2013 Sundance Film Festival, Drake Doremus

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).