Festival Predictions

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #28. Elizabeth Stopford – Forgiveness (Docu)

Published on November 21, 2018

Hereditary gave Park City a January jolt….so perhaps, Elizabeth Stopford‘s Forgiveness can do the same for the docu realm. Developed with Film4 and the Sundance Institute, Stopford’s has been knee deep in this documentary for about a decade now. Her first non-fic featurehas benefitted from support several steps into the process with since 2015’s Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Support, and more recently, the 2017 Composers, Directors Music and Sound Design Labs and 2018 Documentary Edit and Story Lab.

Gist: A haunting small town allegory of a house that vanished. In the wake of two seemingly inexplicable shooting sprees, can a community forgive the teenage boy at the heart of its tragic past?

Production Co./Producers: Elizabeth Stopford

Prediction: World Documentary Competition.

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).