2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #99. Alistair Banks Griffin – The Wolf Hour

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Shooting took place in November of 2017 on Alistair Banks Griffin‘s sophomore feature and a cast of Naomi Watts, Jennifer Ehle, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Emory Cohen, Brennan Brown and Jeremy Bobb to boot. The Wolf Hour was at Sundance’s 2016 January Screenwriters Lab. Griffin reteams with composers  Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans – who got their first ever composing gig in film via Griffin’s Cannes preemed directorial debut, Two Gates of Sleep.

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Gist: Naomi Watts plays a former 60’s activist, a celebrated counter-culture figure who now lives alone in her Bronx apartment and who has barely left her six-story walk up in years, becomes unraveled when an unseen tormentor begins harassing her as the events of the 1977 New York blackout riots unfold outside her window. A significantly larger budgeted in comparison to his lyrical, micro-budget debut, we look forward in seeing how his toolset matured over the stretch.

Production Co./Producers: Bailey Conway (Insidious: The Last Key), Automatik’s Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Teen Spirit), Bradley Pilz (Dreamland).

Prediction: U.S. Dramatic Comp.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. CAA (domestic). Hanway (international).

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), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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