Festival Predictions

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Erin Vassilopoulos’ Superior

Published on November 24, 2020

Recently featured as a work in progress at the US in Progress during the American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, NYC based Erin Vassilopoulos‘ dramatic thriller directorial debut arrives after a quartet of shorts in almost in just as many years. Vassilopoulos arrived in Park City back in 2015 with Superior – the short on which this feature is based on and here she once again employs actress/twin sisters Alessandra Mesa and Anamari Mesa for the lead parts.

Gist: On the run, Marian returns to her hometown in upstate New York to hide out with her estranged identical twin sister, Vivian, who she hasn’t seen in six years….

Production Co./Producers: Benjamin Cohen, Grant Curatola, Patrick Donovan.

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).