Festival Predictions

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Peter Sattler’s Broken Diamonds

Published on November 16, 2020

Haven’t the faintest why Peter Sattler‘s sophomore feature Broken Diamonds (formerly Love & Oatmeal) has been held off the scorecard as production was complete in the summer of 2018. Ben Platt, Lola Kirke and Yvette Nicole Brown star in Sattler’s follow up to his directorial debut in Camp X-Ray – a Sundance Film Fest selection in 2014. Steve Waverly wrote the screenplay.

Gist: This centers on Scott, a twenty-something aspiring writer who, in the wake of his father’s sudden death, sees his dream of moving to Paris put in jeopardy when he is forced to temporarily take in his wildly unpredictable, mentally ill sister.

Production Co./Producers: Black Label Media’s Molly Smith, Rachel Smith, Thad Luckinbill, and Trent Luckinbill are producing with Trina Wyatt.

Prediction: U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION

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).