Joe Swanberg Introduces IFC to His ‘Uncle Kent’

Less than three hours after being named as the odd world premiere title in the Spotlight program which focuses mostly on U.S premieres of major festival titles or friends of the Sundance family screenings, IFC used the iron while it’s still hot to announce that they’ve teamed with the Mumblecore director Joe Swanberg for the 4th time. A SXSW is certainly feasible for Uncle Kent and an early 2011 theatrical release appears logical.

Gist: Co-written by Swanberg and Kent Osborne — this centers on an L.A. cartoonist who tries over the course of a weekend to sleep with a houseguest visiting from New York.

Worth Noting: The Swanberg and IFC connection: Hannah Takes the Stairs, Alexander the Last and Nights and Weekends.

Do We Care?: This may be deemed as the “quickest pre-festival sale” for 2011’s Sundance, but we’ll probably instead wait for Lynn Shelton’s next film.