Festival Predictions

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #21. Miles Joris-Peyrafitte – Dreamland

Published on November 20, 2018

Miles Joris-Peyrafitte could make it 2-for-2 in Park City with his sophomore feature film, Dreamland. Winner of a Special Jury Prize in 2016 when he presented As You Are, Joris-Peyrafitte moves into a thriller that was on the 2015 Black List. This romance and violence dish went into production in October of 2017, with Margot Robbie starring and producing. Travis Fimmel, Garrett Hedlund, Kerry Condon, Finn Cole, and Darby Camp fill out the cast.

Gist: Written by Nicolaas Zwart, Dreamland is set in the 1930s, amid the devastation of the Dust Bowl. The story follows a 15-year-old boy on his quest to capture a fugitive bank robber and collect the bounty on her head, all with the goal of saving his family farm from foreclosure. Against all odds, he beats out the FBI and the local police to find her, only to discover that she’s far more than what the authorities claim her to be. Robbie will play the bank robber.

Production Co./Producers: Lucky Chap Entertainment’s Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara, Automatik’s Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Rian Cahill and Romulus Entertainment’s Brad Feinstein.

Prediction: U.S. Dramatic Competition or Premieres.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. CAA and WME (domestic). Sierra/Affinity (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).