Edoardo Vitaletti The Last Thing Mary Saw

Festival Predictions

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Edoardo Vitaletti’s The Last Thing Mary Saw

Published on November 19, 2020

A directorial debut from a talent who is a complete unknown to us, New York based Italian filmmaker Edoardo Vitaletti enlisted the likes of Stefanie Scott, Isabelle Fuhrman, Rory Culkin and Judith Roberts from You Were Never Really Here for mythological horror item titled, The Last Thing Mary Saw. Scored by Sundance vet Keegan DeWitt, production took place back in December of 2019 in New York.

Gist: Set in 1843 that follows the youngest daughter of a strict religious family who finds herself detained after discovering her ominously matriarchal grandmother dead.

Production Co./Producers: Intrinsic Value’s Aimee Schoof and Isen Robbins, Arachnid Films’ Harrison Allen and Madeleine Schumacher, Stephen Tedeschi.

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).