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Festival Predictions

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ana Lily Amirpour’s Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon

Published on November 19, 2020

A Sundance Film Festival darling back in 2014 for the Iranian vampire spaghetti western A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (read review), she would feature her sophomore The Bad Batch at TIFF in ’16. Production began July of 2019 in New Orleans on Ana Lily Amirpour‘s Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon – and if included in Sundance this goes in as an acquisitions item. Starring Kate Hudson, Craig Robinson, Ed Skrein, Evan Whitten and Jeon Jong-seo, here Amirpour works with Ari Aster’s Cinematographer Pawel Pogorzelski (Midsommar, Hereditary).

Gist: This fantasy pic charts the story of a girl with strange and dangerous abilities who escapes from a mental asylum in New Orleans.

Production Co./Producers: Le Grisbi Productions’ John Lesher, Dylan Weathered, Adam Mirels, Robbie Mirels.

Prediction: MIDNIGHT.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.

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).