Festival Predictions

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #11. Jeff Brown – The Beach House

Published on November 20, 2018

In an unexpected trajectory (along the lines of a Lance Hammer or Markus Schleinzer), with close to two decades of production and locations department gigs that include Jean-Marc Vallee’s Demolition, Sophie Barthes’ Cold Souls and Julie Delpy’s Two Days in New York, Jeff Brown should be debuting his feature film debut sometime in 2019. His passion sci-fi/horror project The Beach House is an off the radar offering that found a great trio of indie producers in Sophia Lin, Andrew D. Corkin and Tyler Davidson and recently surfaced at the IFP’s No Borders program. No details on the players.

Gist: A romantic beach getaway for two troubled college sweethearts turns into a struggle for survival when unexpected guests – and eventually the entire environment – exhibit signs of a mysterious transformative affliction.

Production Co./Producers: Uncorked Productions’ Andrew Corkin (A Vigilante), Sophia Lin (Z for Zachariah), Low Spark Films’ Tyler Davidson (Galveston).

Prediction: NEXT section or Midnight.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Cinetic Media (domestic). Cinetic Media (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).