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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #30. Untitled Mark Jackson Drama

In our interview with the filmmaker, Jackson described this as an “emotional sequel” to his debut, which we classify as a one of 2011’s best American indie filmmaker feature film debuts. Without generated the kind of critical buzz that helped the film take a life of its own, from top tier fall film festival invites to nominations from both the Gotham and Indie Spirit awards.

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#30. Untitled Mark Jackson Drama

Director/Writer: Mark Jackson
Producers: TBA
Distributor: Rights Available

The Gist: This is about a war photographer who is stationed in Sicily after covering the war in Libya. …(more)

Cast: Expect a female lead to be announced shortly.

List Worthy Reasons…: In our interview with the filmmaker, Jackson described this as an “emotional sequel” to his debut, which we classify as a one of 2011’s best American indie filmmaker feature film debuts. Without generated the kind of critical buzz at the beginning of the year that helped the push it past the midway point, adding top tier fall film festival invites and nominations from both the Gotham and Indie Spirit awards.

Release Date/Status?: The probabilities of this making a splash in Italy’s premium fest (Paolo Baratta’s Venice Film Festival) are extremely slim as the production is planned for March of this year, but such variables as size, scope and the tech crew behind the production could get this ready for back to back festival years.

 
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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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