Festival Predictions

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ant Hines & Casper Christensen’s Robots

Published on November 24, 2021

A project that might be too close to the wire to be a part of the Sundance line-up, but with two heads are better philosophy this co-directing team comprised of Ant Hines (best known for writing Sacha Baron Cohen’s feature film projects) and Casper Christensen (a funnybone friendly Danish scribe popular for 2010’s Klown and about two decades worth of TV Series writing) might actually get across the finish line. Production on Robots, began in August in New Mexico with Shailene Woodley and Jack Whitehall in double performances.

Gist: Set in a near future America and follows a womanizer, Charles and a gold digger, Elaine, who trick people into relationships with illegal robot doubles of themselves. When they unwittingly use this scam on each other, their robot doubles fall in love and elope, forcing Charles and Elaine to team up to hunt them down before the authorities discover their secret.

Production Co./Producers: Company Films’ Cassian Elwes and and Stephen Hamel.

Prediction: MIDNIGHT.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. CAA Media Finance/Elevated (domestic). Rocket Science (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).