2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Tully’s Don’t Leave Home

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Austinite Michael Tully packed his bags this past spring, moving from the lobster rouge backdrop of Ocean City, Maryland to the Celtic green meadows of Ireland to direct his latest serving of subversive cinema. A Sundance Film Fest two-timer for Southern screamer Septien (2011) and the vintage sunburn summer vaca comedy Ping Pong Summer (2014), his fifth feature entitled Don’t Leave Home stars Anna Margaret Hollyman (who made her true splash in Zach Clark’s White Reindeer) and sees the filmmaker re-team with cinematographer Wyatt Garfield (his three film format work in Porto can be witnessed theatrically this week).

Gist: An American artist’s obsession with a disturbing urban legend leads her to an investigation of the story’s origins at the crumbling estate of a reclusive painter in Ireland.

Production Co./Producers: Jeffrey Allard (Ping Pong Summer), Walter S. Hall, George M. Rush, Ryan Zacarias (A Ciambra).

Prediction: Park City at Midnight seems fitting.

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

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
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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