2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jerrod Carmichael’s On the Count of Three

After directing some television items in 2018-19, comedian, actor and obvious star of the The Carmichael Show, Jerrod Carmichael officially decided to move into film directing. He went into production on his directorial debut in Canada’s capitol city (no not Toronto, but Ottawa) working from a script from Ramy co-creators Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch. On the Count of Three stars Christopher Abbott, Tiffany Haddish, Henry Winkler, J.B. Smoove and Lavell Crawford.
Gist: This is being described as a darkly comedic thriller.
Production Co./Producers: Valparaiso Pictures’ David Carrico and Adam Paulsen, Werner Entertainment’s Tom Werner, Jake Densen, Ari Katcher, Jerrod Carmichael, Jimmy Price.
Prediction: U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. UTA Independent Film Group (domestic).
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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).
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