Festival Predictions

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #45. Jennifer Reeder – Knives and Skin

Published on November 21, 2018

An artist and film fest circuit habitual, filmmaker Jennifer Reeder‘s looks to be moving out of the short film sphere (the Sundance selected 2014 short A Million Miles Away is just one in a long resume) and comfortably into Knives and Skin. Recently selected as one of the four US in Progress projects in Wroclaw, Reeder has been “hacking” away at this moody ensemble piece for a while now. A major film fest showing is in the cards.

Gist: This is a mystical teen noir that follows a young girl’s disappearance in the rural Midwest and its effect on teens and parents.

Production Co./Producers: Brian and Jan Hieggelke

Prediction: Midnight section with a showing at Rotterdam or Berlin.

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).