2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anu Valia’s We Strangers

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She pretty much began her film career with a bang winning Sundance’s Jury Prize for US Fiction for her short, and then followed that up with lots of television work (more recently directing She-Hulk: Attorney at Law) before moving into her feature film debut this past February. Shot in Indiana, Anu Valia‘s We Strangers is about class divides and it was supported by Cinereach, the Sundance Institute and 2023’s U.S. in Progress at the American Film Festival in Wroclaw.

Gist: This follows Rayelle “Ray” Martin, who is a commercial cleaner for a company that sends her to clean foreclosed homes and commercial spaces. While on the job, she meets a dentist who invites her to become his personal housekeeper for a substantial amount of money. Ray accepts the job, and she unwittingly enters a whole new world of the rich Northwest Indiana elite.

Production Co./Producers: Miranda Kahn, Olivia Wingate, Alex Bach, Zach Spicer, Joy Jorgensen.

Prediction: U.S. Dramatic Competition.

Sales: TBD.

2023 American Film Festival Wroclaw

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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