2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lena Dunham’s Sharp Stick

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Lena Dunham is sure making up for her lack of feature film output with not one, but two films in post production. She has the most recently shot Catherine, Called Birdy in the can, but we think it’s Sharp Stick that’ll launch first. Featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jon Bernthal, Kristine Froseth, Taylour Paige and Scott Speedman as a porn star, this is being coined as a personal story about the complexities of female sexuality. Shot during the pandemic in late 2020 in Los Angeles, Dunham teamed with cinematographer Ashley Connor and editor Catrin Hedström.

Gist: No plot details yet, but Dunham described this as a personal story about the complexities of female sexuality.

Production Co./Producers: Kevin Turen, Katia Washington, Michael Cohen, Good Thing Going’s Lena Dunham.

Prediction: PREMIERES.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. CAA/FilmNation (domestic). FilmNation (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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