2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #17. Annie Silverstein – Bull

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Selected for the 2016 Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs (here is a video interview), and recipient of the San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grant and Time Warner Fellowship, Annie Silverstein won the jury award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival–Cinéfondation for Skunk before moving into her feature debut, Bull. Filming took place sometime in 2018 in Texas.

Rooftop Films 2019

Gist: Co-written by Silverstein and Johnny McAllister, in a near-abandoned subdivision west of Houston, a wayward teen runs headlong into her equally willful and unforgiving neighbor, an aging bullfighter who’s seen his best days in the arena; it’s a collision that will change them both.

Production Co./Producers: Monique Walton, Heather Rae (Once Upon a River), Ryan Zacarias (The Mountain), Bert Marcus (Ophelia).

Prediction: NEXT section.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic). TBD (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). In 2022, he was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. His top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson). He is a Golden Globes Voter.

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