2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jim Archer’s Brian & Charles

After back to back short film projects in about a half a dozen years, Jim Archer hit creative pay dirt with the 2017 short of the same name (selected for SXSW 2018) was expanded into his directorial debut. Brian & Charles was due to shoot in March of 2020 but got delayed until late that year. In Christopher Guest-like template, written by and starring David Earl and Chris Hayward, the film’s themes might ring more true than when it was initially conceived.

Gist: After a particularly harsh winter Brian (David Earl) goes into a deep depression; completely isolated and with no one to talk to, Brian does what any sane person would do when faced with such a melancholic situation. He builds a robot.

Production Co./Producers: Mr Box’s Rupert Majendie.

Prediction: WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Bankside Films (domestic, international).