Festival Predictions

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #37. Petra Costa – Impeachment (Docu)

Published on November 21, 2018

A slow cook process on a hot button topic, Petra Costa‘s third feature film was a Sundance Institute invitee for the 2018 Documentary Edit and Story Labs selections and feels apropos with the recent change of government in Brazil. She gave us Elena (2014), Olmo And The Seagull (2016), and now Impeachment — a Cinereach project that could mirror the future of American political landscape.

Gist: An epic tragedy of corruption and betrayal, Impeachment is a behind-the-scenes look at the ousting of Brazil’s first female president, Dilma Rousseff. With privileged access to the president and other key politicians, the film unravels like a political thriller in what is not only a defining moment for Brazil but also a fable of our times.

Production Co./Producers: Shane Boris (All These Sleepless Nights), Tiago Pavan (Elena), Petra Costa.

Prediction: Documentary Premieres.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic). TBD (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).