Festival Predictions

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anthony Lucero’s Halo of Stars

Published on November 18, 2020

Perhaps taking a cue from Executive Producer Terrence Malick in terms of amount of time spent in post, Anthony Lucero‘s directorial debut Halo of Stars was in the can by early 2018. Populated by the likes of Lily Collins, Holliday Grainger, Harry Treadaway, Stacy Martin and Lukas Haas, Lucero worked with Radu Jude’s regular Cinemtographer Marius Panduru in a shoot located in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Gist: Based on the long poem The Clown, this is set against the backdrop of a small traveling circus, the pic centers on a European clown and his 5-year-old daughter as they lead each other through the everyday mysteries of love, magic and loss.

Production Co./Producers: Thor Halvorssen and Anthony Lucero.

Prediction: NEXT

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).