Festival Predictions

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Catch The Fair One

Published on November 16, 2020

After stints in television on with Narcos and The Terror, Josef Kubota Wladyka returns to feature film with the indie thriller Catch The Fair One. Winner of the Jury Award for Best New Narrative Director at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival for Manos sucias, Wladyka shot his latest in Buffalo back in November of 2019 with professional boxer Kali “K.O.” Reis leading the charge. The project was a SFFILM grant recipient.

Gist: After her sister’s mysterious disappearance, a Native American boxer plans her own abduction in order to find her.

Production Co./Producers: Mollye Asher, Kim Parker and Wladyka.

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 1976 (Manuela Martelli), Godland (Hlynur Pálmason), Corsage (Marie Kreutzer), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen).

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Festival Predictions

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Catch The Fair One