Festival Predictions

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Karen Cinorre’s Mayday

Published on November 19, 2020

Getting to go creatively madcap with art/set decor on the Isabella Rossellini starring Green Porno series, New Yorker Karen Cinorre made the jump to feature filmmaking after dabbling in clip/short form. Coined as a fantastical female-driven action film, she assembled Juliette Lewis, Grace Van Patten, Mia Goth, Soko, Havana Rose Liu and Théodore Pellerin for Mayday in what was a November 2019 shoot in Croatia and perhaps NYC.

Gist: This focuses on a young woman named Ana (Van Patten) who is transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins up with a band of female soldiers engaged in a never-ending war along a rugged coast. Though she finds strength in this exhilarating world, she comes to realize that she’s not the killer they want her to be and must use her newfound power to try to fight her way back to life.

Production Co./Producers: Queen’s Army’s Karen Cinorre, Complementary Colors’ Jonah Disend, Sam Levy, Secret Engine’s Lucas Joaquin.

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).