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Big Beach Films gamble on Jeffrey Blitz’s new docu

Published on December 20, 2007

After a brief pause with his autobiographical coming-of-age tale in Rocket Science (read our interview with him), Jeffrey Blitz has gone back to his first love: documentary filmmaking. He has been working on the project for the better part of the year and The Hollywood Reporter reports that the producer of Little Miss Sunshine, Sherrybaby and the upcoming Sundance selection Sunshine Cleaning will be boarding this project which should be ready for release sometime this year. Big Beach Films will position the doc at an upcoming festival or find an indie distributor to buy the film rights.

To get an idea of Blitz's style, look no further than his crazy 6-million dollar hit Spellbound – a doc on the little people that make up the national spelling bee. His current piece of Americana pie (currently in production) tells the stories of lottery winners and the phenomenon of the lottery.

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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).