Tayarisha Poe's Selah and the Spades | 2019 Sundance Film Festival

Tayarisha Poe’s Selah and the Spades | 2019 Sundance Film Festival

Published on February 13, 2019

Stylish, slick and super sophisticated for a micro-indie of this scale, what works marvels is Tayarisha Poe‘s the film’s narrative blue print and universe. Selah and the Spades felt like the under-the-radar Sundance secret that will undoubtedly make a brand name for the filmmaker and we’re already looking forward to what is next in store in terms of in-between feature gigs. We were on hand for a world premiere playdate at the mythic Egyptian theatre.

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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).