Festival Predictions

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Benjamin/Carrillo/Kusama/St. Vincent/Vuckovic’s XX

Published on November 30, 2016

Looking down our list, if included at this year’s fest, they would be emblematic of what we believe will be the highest percentage of female filmmakers to shore up in the feature film categories. Roxanne Benjamin, Sofia Carrillo, Karyn Kusama, and St. Vincent team up with Jovanka Vuckovic to create their own fox force five with four XX branded anthology vignettes. To be released around Valentine’s day.

Gist: Four stories.

Production Co./Producers: Todd Brown, Karen Shaw, Nick Spicer, Travis Stevens

Prediction: No other place at Sundance except for the Park City at Midnight section.

U.S. Distributor: Magnet Releasing.

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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).