2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sophie Goodhart’s My Blind Brother

Despite being a first time feature filmmaker, if Sophie Goodhart were to get into Sundance…it wouldn’t be her first visit. She started off in the biz when her 2003 short was accepted into Cannes Palme d’Or short comp, but Goodhart was 1/3rd of the scribes involved in the Sundance Film Fest’s NEXT section selected Homewrecker from directors Todd and Brad Barnes. Shot in Cleveland this past May, she took the basis and the title of her short film and lined up a feature version of it with an attention grabbing cast: Adam Scott, Jenny Slate and Nick Kroll. My Blind Brother is the sort of material that might actually fall into the U.S. Dramatic Comp which recently proved that you don’t need to be a strict drama to be included in that category, but a Premieres directorial debut could also be in the cards.

Gist: Adam Scott plays a handsome man who gets all the women and is the perfect athlete–even though he’s blind. Kroll plays his less handsome brother, whose role in life is to serve as his brother’s eyes. That is until blind brother falls for a young woman (Slate) that sighted brother falls for, too.

Production Co./Producers: Low Spark Films’ Tyler Davidson and Tory Tunnell (Holy Rollers). Executive producers: Low Sparks’ Kevin Flanigan and Safehouse Pictures’ Joby Harold, Joseph E. LoConti.

Prediction: Premieres category.

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

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