Festival Predictions

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ross Bros.’ Gasoline Rainbow

Published on November 11, 2023

Gasoline Rainbow had its world premiere in the Orizzonti section at the Venice Film Festival this year with subsequent stops at London BFI and this week’s American Film Festival in Wroclaw but it has yet to premiere in the U.S. We think that Sundance and SXSW programmers will both be interested in supporting Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV once again with a showcase bonus screening following in te footsteps of their support for 45365, Tchoupitoulas, Western, Contemporary Color and Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets. Tony Abuerto, Micah Bunch, Nichole Dukes, Nathaly Garcia and Makai Garza star in the road-trip film.

Gist: Five teenagers embark on one last adventure to the Pacific Coast.

Production Co./Producers: Department of Motion Pictures’ Michael Gottwald, Carlos Zozaya.

Prediction: Spotlight.

U.S. Distributor: Mubi.

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).