Festival Predictions

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

Published on November 22, 2018

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.

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 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).