Festival Predictions

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #91. Untitled Miranda July Crime Drama

Published on November 23, 2018

We’re not sure if the Madeline’s Madeline experience put Miranda July into the let’s make a movie spirit, but shortly after premiering last January the artist went into her third director outing with the likes of Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, Debra Winger, Richard Jenkins. The untitled project went into production in March. Both 2005’s Me and You and Everyone We Know and 2011’s The Future premiered at the fest.

Gist: A woman’s life is turned upside down when her criminal parents invite an outsider to join them on a major heist they’re planning.

Production Co./Producers: Megan Ellison, Dede Gardner, Youree Henley, Jeremy Kleiner, Brad Pitt.

Prediction: U.S. Dramatic Comp.

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

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).