2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Stephen Karam’s The Humans

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Production on Stephen Karam‘s move into film directing via his own one-act play of the same name, the A24 folks got behind the project featuring the likes of Beanie Feldstein, Jayne Houdyshell, Richard Jenkins, Amy Schumer and Steven Yeun. For The Humans, Karam worked with cinematographer Lol Crawley (The Devil All the Time) on a pic that’ll feature the great indoors. Karam wrote the film adaptation for The Seagull.

Gist: This follows the course of an evening in which the Blake family gathers to celebrate Thanksgiving. As darkness falls outside the crumbling building, mysterious things start to go bump in the night and family tensions reach a boiling point.

Production Co./Producers: Eli Bush, Scott Rudin.

2020 American Film Festival in Poland

Prediction: U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION

U.S. Distributor: A24.

2020 American Film Festival in Poland

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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