2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jessica Manafort’s Rosy

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The daughter of former Trump campaign chairman proposes an anti-Stockholm Syndrome with her NYC set, kidnapping thriller Rosy. Lensing began in November of 2015 on her long awaited sophomore feature, before that Jessica Manafort directed a trio of shorts and the feature Remember the Daze (2007). This time out she employs a youthful cast of Nat Wolff, Stacy Martin, Sky Ferreira and helmer/actor Alex Karpovsky with a score signed Danny Bensi/Saunder Jurriaans (Amanda Knox) and cinematography by Zach Galler (Collective: Unconscious). Sundance once had Alpha Dog in their ranks, perhaps this is a fit as well.

Gist: Wolff plays Doug, a lonely guy who kidnaps a struggling actress named Rosy (Stacy Martin). Plans go awry as she proves more difficult for him to handle than ever expected.

Production Co./Producers: Super Crispy Entertainment’s Jonathan Schwartz (Imperial Dreams).

Prediction: U.S. Dramatic Comp.

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

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Eric Lavallée
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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