2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #87. Owen Kline – Two Against Nature

The by-product of acting royalty, Criterion connoisseur, and child actor in The Squid and the Whale, Owen Kline‘s debut was briefly mentioned in a Variety profile on the producing team behind Good Times. Fast-forward to 2019 and with quite the producing team in place, Two Against Nature had cinematographer Sean Price Williams on board for a November 2017 shoot in Yonkers with Maria Dizzia, Josh Pais, Daniel Zolghadri and Matthew Maher as the player set.
Gist: TBD.
Production Co./Producers: Elara Pictures’ Sebastian Bear-McClard, Oscar Boyson, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie (Good Times) Scott Rudin Productions’ Scott Rudin and Eli Bush.
Prediction: NEXT section.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic). TBD (international).
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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).
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