Festival Predictions

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Adam Keleman’s Easy Living

Published on November 24, 2016

Adam Keleman is the type of first time filmmaker we admire: learn the craft, be a fly on the wall and stay hungry. With production assistant creds on Ira Sachs’ Keep the Lights On and Pascale Ferran’s Bird People, Keleman landed one of Quebec’s best imports in Caroline Dhavernas for a role that devilishly reminds u of the go-getter spirit found in American Beauty‘s Annette Bening character. Filming on Easy Living took place last January and since then, the film found support at the US in Progress in Paris edition to some West coast love from The AbelCine Feature Film Grant from Film Independent. This is more than ready for an early 2017 bow.

Gist: Sherry, a self-destructive saleswoman, hopes a new man and business venture will provide her a fresh start.

Production Co./Producers: Laura Wagner (Tracktown)

Prediction: U.S. Dramatic or NEXT section.

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).