Festival Predictions

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lila Neugebauer’s Red, White and Water

Published on November 24, 2021

Among the top dozen titles we’re surprised that didn’t drop in 2021 is Lila Neugebauer‘s Red, White and Water. Sure it’s a debut feature but it’s toplined by enormous talents of Jennifer Lawrence. Neugebauer directed off and on Broadway projects and got behind the camera for HBO series Room 104 before moving into feature film with a June 2019 start date in New Orleans. Lawrence was joined by Brian Tyree and aided by cinematographer Diego García and Prod Designer Jack Fisk. Scott Rudin’s name has been stripped from producing credits — we’d be really surprised if A24 decides to not premiere in at Sundance.

Gist: Written by Elizabeth Sanders, Luke Goebel and Ottessa Moshfegh, Lawrence plays a U.S. solider who suffers a traumatic brain injury in Afghanistan and struggles to recover back home.

Production Co./Producers: Eli Bush, Jennifer Lawrence, Justine Polsky, Scott Rudin.

Prediction: U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION.

U.S. Distributor: A24.

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).