Festival Predictions

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Carlos Puga’s Full-Dress

Published on November 25, 2016

Having creatively immersed himself as a docu producer and direct on a handful of MTV’s True Life Series,
Carlos Puga first broke into Sundance with his 2011 short Satan Since 2003 and quickly followed that up with his SXSW award winning feature film (originally titled Burma) All That I Am. Reuniting with actor Christopher Abbott, Puga began filming on his sophomore feature this past May and enlisted Robin Lord Taylor, Lina Esco, Jimmy Akingbola and Boris Krutonog has supporting characters in a film production gone wrong. A dark, meta comedy, Full-Dress might be an extension of his 2007 short going by the same name.

Gist: Two friends set out to make a movie that will change their lives, but they borrow money from the wrong guy. When they lose their star, and the production falls apart, they become aware that the situation is much graver than once thought. As their fates are decided, the audience realizes everything is not as it seems.

Production Co./Producers: Melanie Bartley, Tyler Peters, and Cru Ennis (Delirium)

Prediction: NEXT section at Sundance or SXSW showing.

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).