Festival Predictions

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mimi Cave’s Holland, Michigan

Published on November 12, 2023

Despite the pandemic nixing the physical edition and replacing it with the virtual one, it feels like it didn’t snow on Mimi Cave‘s parade. Fresh (read review) pulled in some solid reviews at Sundance and she managed to parlay the hype and push towards a sophomore project that is a Mount Rushmore in terms of quality. A top ranked 2013 Blacklist screenplay penned by Andrew Sodroski, Holland, Michigan was swirling around Hollywood for about a decade until the film gods pieced together what is pitched as a Hitchcock-style thriller with Nicole Kidman and Gael García Bernal toplining. Matthew Macfadyen and Rachel Sennott are also onboard.

Gist: A woman in a small midwestern town suspects her husband of living a double life but things may be worse than she initially imagined.

Production Co./Producers: Blossom Films’ Nicole Kidman and Per Saari, Pacific View Management and Productions’ Peter Dealbert, Churchill Films’ Kate Churchill.

Prediction: Premieres.

U.S. Distributor: Amazon Studios.

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).