Festival Predictions

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #63. Jessica Oreck – One Man Dies a Million Times (Docu)

Published on November 22, 2018

Pretty much on a breakneck pace since she introduced us to Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo in 2009 (here is our interview), there has been a longer gestation period for One Man Dies a Million Times. Jessica Oreck (Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys, The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga) proposes a docu slash fiction that comes equipped with subtitles and cinematography by celluloid specialist Sean Price Williams. Selected as a participant in 2017 American Film Festival’s U.S in Progress in Wroclaw, and landed the Tribeca Film Institute: Filmmaker Fund: Production Award the same year. We’re guessing that this hybrid will be circling a Sundance play date, despite the fest not playing her feature length films, she did show an earlier work in short film Venus in 2011.

Gist: A true story, set in the future. About seeds and genetic diversity, about growth and decay, about love and war, about hunger of all kinds. About what it means to be human, even when all your humanity is stripped away.

A true story, set in the future. About seeds and genetic diversity, about growth and decay, about love and war, about hunger of all kinds. About what it means to be human, even when all your humanity is stripped away.

Production Co./Producers: Jessica Oreck

Prediction: Feels New Frontier section like, but could fall in the U.S. Documentary Comp.

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).