Festival Predictions

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #22. Andrew Ahn – Driveways

Published on November 20, 2018

After the critically acclaimed Spa Night, (2016 Sundance Film Fest selection) Andrew Ahn moved into the television sphere with a half dozen episodes of This Close, but without fanfare, he switched coasts, teamed with producer heavyweight James Schamus, shot in NYC this past July for his sophomore film Driveways. The filmmaker’s rapport with the fest is great — Spa Night participated in the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, the Film Independent Screenwriting Lab, and the Film Independent Directing Lab and he received a Sundance Institute Cinereach Feature Film Fellow grant. His short Dol (First Birthday) was a 2012 selection.

Gist: TBD.

Production Co./Producers: Symbolic Exchange’s James Schamus (Indignation), Joe Pirro (Dayveon).

Prediction: U.S. Dramatic Comp.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic). TBD (international).

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).