Festival Predictions

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #34. Stephen Gurewitz – Honky Kong

Published on November 21, 2018

Apart from a work in progress industry screening in Wroclaw during the American Film Fest in 2017, there is very little info on Stephen Gurewitz’s Honkey Kong. A project that proposes renowned cinematographer Sean Price Williams being playful in front of the camera, and that takes place on the other side of the world, Hannah Gross and Alex Ross Perry also star in Gurewitz’s third feature film after Happy Birthday Rita (2010) and Marvin Seth and Stanley (2012).

Gist: A soul-battered New York chef begins unraveling during a trip to Hong Kong.

Production Co./Producers: Britni West.

Prediction: NEXT section or SXSW or Tribeca.

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).