Festival Predictions

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Madden’s Operation Mincemeat

Published on November 20, 2020

An acquisitions friendly title from across the pound with all the production value trimmings that we feel would have normally splashed in the Premieres section, veteran helmer John Madden began filming Operation Mincemeat back in December of 2019 in London and then Spain. Starring Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Tom Wilkinson, Penelope Wilton, Jason Isaacs and Johnny Flynn, this true life WWII story is quite remarkable.

Gist: This depicts the events surrounding the World War II plan Operation Mincemeat, a deception effort to keep the Allied invasion of Sicily hidden.

Production Co./Producers: Iain Canning, Charles S. Cohen, Emile Sherman, Kris Thykier.

Prediction: PREMIERES.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. CAA Media Finance (domestic). FilmNation Entertainment / Cross City Films (international).

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).