2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #67. Keola Racela – Porno

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Working in the short form and picking up Sundance film experiences by being an art dept. intern on David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche and an assistant editor on Matthew Ross’ Frank & Lola, Cali-based and Columbia Uni grad Keola Racela recently received help in post with Sundance Institute’s 2018 Film Music and Sound Design Lab Folks for Porno.

Rooftop Films 2019

Gist: Written by Matt Black and Laurence Vannicelli, when five teen employees at the local movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious old film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education…written in blood.

Production Co./Producers: Chris Cole, Sarah Seulki Oh.

Prediction: NEXT section or SXSW Narrative 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). In 2022, he was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. His top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson). He is a Golden Globes Voter.

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