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

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).