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

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).