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

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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.

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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 Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
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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