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Festival Predictions

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #13. Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy – Blow the Man Down

Published on November 20, 2018

After busting their chops collectively in different sectors, shapes and lengths within the biz, Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy combined their efforts for what would be one of the first gigs for newly minted prod house Secret Engine. A project that was selected for Film Independent’s 2017 Fast Track film finance market, production on Blow the Man Down took place in Maine last February, noteworthy players include Annette O’Toole, Margo Martindale, June Squibb, Morgan Saylor, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Gayle Rankin and Sophie Lowe.

Gist: An accidental murder. An established madam who does her dirtiest business while the town willingly looks the other way. Fifty grand of cash up for grabs and the local men out to sea … enter two sisters with nothing and everything to lose.

Production Co./Producers: Secret Engine’s Drew P. Houpt (Beach Rats) and Alex Scharfman (Women Who Kill).

Prediction: Longshot for the U.S. Dramatic Comp. SXSW Comp also an option.

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).