2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Del Kathryn Barton’s Blaze

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A creative mind that appears to know no bounds, Aussie-based artist Del Kathryn Barton moved from the blank canvas to the film beginning with the Berlinale short Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose in 2015 and followed that up with a short art performance type featuring Cate Blanchett called Red (about a mother embodies a female redback spider, which eats its mate after sex). We imagine her debut film which mergers live action, VFX and stop-motion animation techniques began pre pandemic. Simon Baker and Julia Savage boarded Blaze and there are some noteworthy key members onboard with the producer behind The Nightingale and Sundance grand slam The Babadook. We have Jeremy Rouse – the cinematographer for The Rover, production designer Alex Holmes (The Invisible Man), and Sam Petty and Angel Olsen help composed the film. For more on the artist – check out this article.

Gist: Blaze (Julia Savage) is a teenager who is the sole witness to a shocking crime. Struggling to make sense of what she saw, she unleashes the wrath of a dragon coming from her wild imagination.

Production Co./Producers: Causeway Films’ Samantha Jennings.

Prediction: WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.  MK2 (domestic, 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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