Festival Predictions

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Geoff Marslett’s The Boardinghouse Reach

Published on November 24, 2021

It always feels like a W in the win column when Geoff Marslett puts a film out there in the world — life as a filmmaker who includes rotoscope techniques in his tool belt means it’s not about the race, but the marathon mentality. Insert his third feature film with The Boardinghouse Reach, which enlisted David Arquette, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Lily Gladstone, Frank Mosley and filmmaker Alex Cox for some Far West and far out ideas. Production on the film was completed in 2019 and project was part of 2020’s U.S. in Progress at Wroclaw’s American Film Festival. Marslett’s last short The Phantom 52 was selected for the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

Gist: A rotoscoped time travel western.

Production Co./Producers: Melodie Sisk, William G. Way

Prediction: NEXT.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBA (domestic, 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).