Festival Predictions

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bernardo Britto’s Omni Loop

Published on November 16, 2023

A sophomore film project (fka Omni Loop Blues) that was selected to participate in the Sundance Institute’s 2017 Screenwriters Lab looks be be ready a lucky seven years later. A favorite at the Sundance Film Festival connecting his shorts and his feature film debut in Jacqueline (Argentine), Bernardo Britto would have moved into production possibly more than a year ago in his backyard of Florida. Omni Loop features Ayo Edebiri and Mary-Louise Parker.

Gist: For years, Zoya Lowe has been traveling back in time, reliving the final week of her life without variation—until one day, something unexpected happens, and she seizes the chance to do everything she ever wanted.

Production Co./Producers: Benjamin Cohen, Patrick Donovan, David Hinojosa.

Prediction: U.S. Dramatic competition.

Sales: TBD.

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).