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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Braden King’s HERE

We’ve been waiting for HERE to debut for some time now (we listed it at #55 last year) and were glad to see that the film has mutated into various shapes and forms. The fest are calling this “an unlikely love story, HERE is also a cerebral, self-reflexive road movie that arrives at a fascinating intersection of forms.”

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#40. HERE

Director: Braden King
Writer(s): Dani Valent and King
Producers: Parts and Labor’s Jay Van Hoy and Lars Knudsen
Distributor: Rights Available.

The Gist: Will Shepard (Foster) is an American satellite-mapping engineer contracted to create a new, more accurate survey of the country of Armenia. Within the industry, his solitary work – land-surveying satellite images to check for accuracy and resolve anomalies – is called “ground-truthing”. He’s been doing it on his own, for years, all over the world, but on this trip, his measurements are not adding up… (more)

Cast: Lubna Azabal and Ben Foster.

List Worthy Reasons…We’ve been waiting for HERE to debut for some time now (we listed it at #55 last year) and were glad to see that the film has mutated into various shapes and forms. The fest are calling this “an unlikely love story, HERE is also a cerebral, self-reflexive road movie that arrives at a fascinating intersection of forms.” Sign me up for this frequency.

Release Date/Status?Sundance Film Festival premiere in the U.S Dramatic Competition this month.

 
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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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