2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #7. Jackie Olive – Always in Season (Docu)

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Working on the PBS documentary series Independent Lens for three seasons, Jackie Olive has worked immersive media production prior to moving into her docu feature debut. Always in Season has received artist grants from the Tribeca Film Fund, Chicken & Egg Picture, Independent Television Service, International Documentary Association, Firelight Media, Catapult Film Fund and Sundance Institutes’ Documentary Fund Grants, Documentary Edit & Story Lab, and the Film Music and Sound Design Lab, it appears this is prepped for a 2019 festival premiere.

Rooftop Films 2019

Gist: When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother’s search for justice and reconciliation begins while the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present.

Production Co./Producers: Jessica Devaney (Speed Sisters) and Jacqueline Olive.

Prediction: U.S. Documentary Competition.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic). TBD (international)

 

Eric Lavallée
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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). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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