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Park City Predictions: 50 Hopeful Films Heading to 2011 Sundance Film Festival

As a team of weary eyed Sundance programmers are watching and deliberating on the thousands of films they received on their end, I’ve taken it upon myself, now a tradition on the site, to reveal my informed, speculative predictions list of 50 hopeful film titles that I believe have the best odds of showing at next year’s edition.

My favorite time of the new year is near. In about 78 days from now, I’ll be trading in one wintery scene for another, except this one has got tons of goodies in the shape of world film premieres from burgeoning and established indie, doc and foreign filmmakers. Here’s what we do know about the upcoming 2011 edition of the Sundance FIlm Festival.

We know that the closing of the Racquet Club (due to renovations) might mean we can expect “tighter” apres-screening Q&A’s and perhaps, a minor drop in the usual amount of titles offered than in the previous years. We know that Richard Linklater will take a quick break from editing Bernie, to present the 20th anniversary edition of Slackers. We know that Kevin MacDonald’s Life in a Day, the doc where YouTube users submitted video to eventually make for some nutty montage, will be premiering in Park City. As for what else will be shown, it’s anyone’s guess. This is where IONCINEMA.com comes in.

As a team of weary eyed Sundance programmers are watching and deliberating on the thousands of films they received on their end, I’ve taken it upon myself, now a tradition on the site, to reveal my informed, speculative predictions list of 50 hopeful film titles that I believe have the best odds of showing at next year’s edition. Each individual film on the list will gradually be released over the week, but if you’re impatient like I am, click away on the arrow below. Enjoy! 

 
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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).

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