Raven Jackson All Dirt Roads Taste Of Salt

Festival Predictions

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Raven Jackson’s All Dirt Roads Taste Of Salt

Published on November 22, 2021

While this definitely feels like a bonafide Sundance film, of all the predictions you’ll find here we have no idea how far into the post production journey the film is, and when you consider the amount of inventory the A24 folks have – a fall fest debut or 2023 Sundance positioning might be more logical. Raven Jackson‘s All Dirt Roads Taste Of Salt was shot in Tennessee and was produced by cool kids in Pastel’s Barry Jenkins and Adele Romanski. Shot on film, Jomo Fray (Selah and the Spades and Port Authority) was the cinematographer. A poet, fotog and filmmaker, Jackson’s short Nettles was selected for San Sebastián. All Dirt Roads Taste Of Salt is supported by Cinereach, SFFILM, IFP, Film Independent, Tribeca Film Institute, New Orleans Film Society, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and Westridge Foundation.

Gist: This explores the life of a black woman in chronicles in rural Tennessee – from her youth to her older years.

Production Co./Producers: Pastel’s Barry Jenkins and Adele Romanski, Maria Altamirano.

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 1976 (Manuela Martelli), Godland (Hlynur Pálmason), Corsage (Marie Kreutzer), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen).