Festival Predictions

2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Darius Clark Monroe’s Evolution of a Criminal

Published on November 19, 2013

It’s been a long journey for this docu debut to come to fruition, and we can only imagine it’s been an even longer journey for the film’s subject and filmmaker. Darius Clark Monroe’s extremely personal docu was first on our radar when Cinereach awarded it some coin in 2008, and if we fast-forward to 2013 it loaded up in support from the folks from the IFP Documentary Labs, the San Francisco Film Society’s Documentary Film Fund, Rooftop Films and now is offering a short glimpse at the Cannes of docu film festivals aka IFDA.

Gist: Deep in the heart of Texas, what begins as an innocent tale of family, sacrifice, and financial hardship quickly escalates into a true-crime thriller. Fusing together compelling interviews, striking re-enactments, and home video, we are forced to ask ourselves how a 16 year-old honor roll student evolved into a bank robber.

Production Co./Producers: DeerJen Films’ Jen Gatien (Kiss of the Damned) and Monroe.

Prediction: U.S. Documentary Competition

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
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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).