Festival Predictions

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: George Amponsah’s Down by Law

Published on November 12, 2014

Garnering fund and lab support on both sides of the Atlantic, Down By Law has been tailored with BFI coin support and with the giving hands of three recent Institute initiatives: Sundance’s 2013 Documentary Film Grant, 2014 July Documentary Edit and Story Lab, and the 2014 Creative Producing Summit. George Amponsah’s third docu film looks to be an explosive, observational hybrid type docu that is surely being readied for the World Docu section and Mark Duggan’s story might echo some of the issues that have been brought up with Ferguson, Missouri.

Gist: This follows several years in the lives of two of the closest friends of Mark Duggan, the man whose death at the hands of armed police sparked the UK riots of 2011.

Production Co./Producers: Dionne Walker.

Prediction: World Documentary Competition.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic). TBD (international)

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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).