2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Camilleri’s Luzzu

Working as an associate editor on a trio of recent Ramin Bahrani films (At Any Price, 99 Homes, Fahrenheit 451), Alex Camilleri has been in post on his directorial debut collecting some support via Les Arcs Film Festival (2019 edition), as a Film Independent 2019 Directing Lab Fellow, and is currently a finalist to grab some coin via the SFFILM and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation for the Fall 2020 SFFILM Rainin Grant. His earliest history with anything Sundance was as a Lab participant as an editor on Rachel Israel’s Keep The Change. His feature debut Luzzu was filmed in Malta and will hit the film fest circuit in 2021.

Gist: On the island of Malta, desperate fisherman Jesmark fights the cutthroat fishing industry in order to change his family’s fate.

Production Co./Producers: Rebecca Anastasi, Ramin Bahrani, Oliver Mallia.

Prediction: NEXT.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.