2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sara Colangelo’s Little Accidents (First Look!)

My crystal ball says this might be 2014’s answer to Winter’s Bone, where tragedy, economics and backdrop are just as strong a character set as the array of players themselves. You can’t get a more perfect Park City “package” than Sara Colangelo’s debut film. Spawned from her award-winning short of the same name (it played at the fest’s 2010 edition) and which would serve as the basis for a feature that became a part of the Sundance Institute’s 2011 June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, before Little Accidents got its mid summer production start, the West Virginia set project attracted the attention of a who’s who of producing talent, Fruitvale Station‘s cinematographer Rachel Morrison and Production Designer Chris Trujillo. Starring Elizabeth Banks, Boyd Holbrook, Chloë Sevigny, Jacob Lofland, Josh Lucas and indie queen starlet Alexia Rasmussen, this will be among the films to beat in the comp. Check out the exclusive production still with Colangelo and Banks below.

Gist: In a small American coal town, this follows the disappearance of JT, a 14 year-old boy in an American coal town which has already seen its share of tragedy after a mining accident. JT’s disappearance draws together three local residents from very different walks of life. Together they struggle to navigate the web of secrets surrounding the boy’s death, unaware of how connected they truly are.

Production Co./Producers: Archer Gray Prod’s Anne Carey (The American), TideRock Media’s Jason Michael Berman and Thomas B. Fore (LUV), Summer Shelton (Adult World)

Prediction: Certified U.S. Dramatic Competition offering.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

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