Festival Predictions

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jared Frieder’s Three Months

Published on November 25, 2020

A micro indie project flying low on the radar actually had a tremendous upswing from the get-go when Jared Frieder saw his screenplay land on the infamous Blacklist circa 2015 (it was even announced by legend Killer Films producer Christine Vachon wtch the vid. Along the way, Frieder would benefit from the Sundance Diversity Initiative and so with a lot of patience, a Los Angeles production start date back in September of 2019 and a quartet of the next Gen of American indie film producers in Drew P. Houpt, Alexander A. Motlagh, Lucas Joaquin, and Alex Scharfman backed the project. Three Months proposes a look HIV via comedy — circa 2011. Troye Sivan toplines this project.

Gist: After being exposed to HIV the weekend of his high school graduation in 2011, a punk gay teenager from Miami attempts to start a new relationship with a someone from his support group as they try to endure the three months it takes to get accurately tested.

Production Co./Producers: Drew P. Houpt, Alexander A. Motlagh, Lucas Joaquin, Alex Scharfman.

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).