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Sundance Film Festival: Day 5

Published on January 21, 2008

Best news to come out on Sunday: no one lost any money. In an article from the NYTimes, we get a sense that no one wants to make the Grace is Gone mistake. More reviews are coming in via Variety (see clearly labeled headlines here and The Hollywood Reporter offers a morsel of reviews here. Over at Spout.com we have the daily musings of a couple of Park City virgins: 2 indie filmmakers who’ve never been invited to Sundance are Ronald Brownstein (Frownland) and Joe Swanberg (Hannah takes the Stairs) and they seem to be having a fun time discovering the fest. Finally, a new Sundance initiate was announced on Sunday put in place to support indie producers. Below: perhaps the most sought after docu.

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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).