Festival Predictions

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Logan Sandler’s Live Cargo

Published on November 25, 2015

A micro indie L’Avventura-esque meets Miss Bala like oddity presented at the U.S in Progress (2015 Paris Champs-Élysées Film Festival edition), Logan Sandler reteams with Short Term 12‘s Keith Stanfield (both collaborated on Sandler’s second short, Tracks) and adds Dree Hemingway (Sean Baker’s Starlet) for what sounds like the mix between an art film and a genre film. Filmed in B&W, the American Film Institute grad saw Live Cargo get selected as one of ten feature films selected by IFP for the annual Independent Filmmaker Lab of 2015.

Gist: A young couple mourning the death of their baby retreat to a tiny Bahamian island where they become entangled in a turf war between a dangerous human trafficker, an aging island patriarch and an obsessive homeless youth.

Production Co./Producers: Thymaya Payne (King Cobra), Mortimer Canepa.

Prediction: Narrow possibility for the NEXT, might trickle into SXSW and/or Locarno.

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).