Video: Craig William Macneill’s Lizzie | 2018 Sundance Film Festival

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The ’18 edition of Sundance stood as a breakout year in terms of women taking ownership of material. We could cite several projects where actresses backed indie projects in a hands on producer capacity approach, and if there was one such project that is emblematic of this progressive stance in indie film productions it might be Chloe Sevigny shepherding what on paper sounds like a challenging, difficult to finance genre-bending portrait. Equipped with a survivalist character portrayed by Kristen Stewart, this U.S. Dramatic Competition title scored favorably on our end with our Nicholas Bell calling Lizzie “a dark flower” and “a sobering, complex indictment—making” type of drama. Helmer Craig William Macneill was on hand with Sevigny, Bryce Kass and other cast and crew members for the world premiere.

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Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury 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 was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. His top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson). He is a Golden Globes Voter.

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