Tag: 2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Renzi’s Franny
Moving from producer hat-wearing days (Afterschool, Two Gates of Sleep) to firmly stippling Park City with a metaphysical, deeply humane and serene portraits The Fort (2012) and Karaoke! (2013),...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jonás Cuarón’s Forsaken
Due to the film's against all odds protagonist, look for Forsaken (formerly known as Desierto) to be mentioned as a reference point to Who is...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda Beck’s God Bless the Child
While pursuing their unique artistic paths, they've also been a creative force churning out short film items since 2008's Ella and the Astronaut and the Sundance-programmed Charlie...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Maris Curran’s Five Nights in Maine
Maris Curran's directorial debut might be a longshot for Sundance....at least for the 2015 edition. The drama which has its character set wrestle with...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rick Alverson’s Entertainment
It may be too early to call him an American cousin akin to the quasi-dark humor of Roy Andersson and Aki Kaurismäki, but is third...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour
Three times lucky and fourth time the charm? Depending on who ask, The End of the Tour, the book to screen adaptation of David Lipsky's...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Zachary Sluser’s The Driftless Area
With a trio of short films under his belt, Zachary Sluser hit indie film pay dirt with a measuring cup full of Sundance vets...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: George Amponsah’s Down by Law
Garnering fund and lab support on both sides of the Atlantic, Down By Law has been tailored with BFI coin support and with the...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Yael Melamede’s (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies
When you think of the overall Sundance docu selections, programmers may want to balance the hard-hitting slate with this, the curiously titled (Dis)Honesty: The Truth...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joe Swanberg’s Digging For Fire
Guess who's turning 10? Joe Swanberg has had a "fire" in his belly for, give or take a decade, and his latest in the...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marielle Heller’s Diary of a Teenage Girl
We'd be hard pressed to find more of an enraptured superfan of Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel than Marielle Heller. The actress adapted Diary of...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Zoe Cassavetes’ Day Out of Days
It's not uncommon to see a filmmaker essentially break out with a hit film (in baseball lingo this wasn't a home run, but an...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Benjamin Dickinson’s Creative Control
Brooklynites might be out of the woods in Benjamin Dickinson's sophomore film, but in this genre-bender project, it appears that no hipster is left unscathed...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rob Moss & Peter Galison’s Containment
An integral part the fabric that makes up the documentary community, docu-helmer Rob Moss is two for two with documentaries preeming in Park City....
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jonathan Keevil’s Chuck Hank and the San Diego Twins
Park City might get a blast of 1979's The Warriors if filmmaker Jonathan Keevil and his clan manage to do what Bellflower (2011's NEXT...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jaffe Zinn’s Children
Along with her numerous contributions to American indie film plus supporting parts in Drake Doremus' Equals and television's House of Cards, 2014 will have...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Chevalier
Sundance World Dramatic Comp programmers have been strong supporters of new Greek cinema, and especially welcoming towards Athina Rachel Tsangari who has technically been...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Knate Gwaltney’s Cardboard Boxer
The Rules of Fight Club. Do talk about this indie feautre. For his feature debut, first time director Knate Gwaltney choose a storyline that is...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matt Ross’ Captain Fantastic
Unlike say a micro-budgeted indie with enough coin in the backend for post-production, chances are slim that this modestly priced indie with A-list cast...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Franco’s Bukowski
Feeding our curiosity for what a major transgressive adonis in future literary world might look like in the pre stench of cigarettes and booze era, I'm imagining something...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jorge Michel Grau’s Big Sky
He had made name for himself with the Cannes debut We Are What We Are in 2010, and the remake of his film actually premiered at...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dee Rees’ Bessie
While HBO Films have yet to date the TV movie (according to a recent interview they'd be aiming for early '15) they'd definitely use some...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation
The main title theme song for "True Detective" now comes to mind when I think of the unfairly talented Cary Fukunaga. A scheduled autumn...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jordan Galland’s Ava’s Possessions
I originally took notice of the project when the trades announced that the oft-used supporting indie starlet Louisa Krause (non-related pic above -- who...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matthew Lessner’s Automatic at Sea
Best describe as an updated homage to 50's French cinema, Matthew Lessner's history with the festival dates back to the showing of his short film By Modern...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tim Blake Nelson’s Anesthesia
While TIFF has become film premiere terrain for his last director outings (the horribly timed post 9/11 released The Grey Zone and 2009's Leaves...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Pamela Romanowsky’s The Adderall Diaries
The perpetually busy James Franco might just begin his 2015 with the Park City launch-padding of (among others) Pamela Romanowsky's directorial debut comes across...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mark Elijah Rosenberg’s Ad Inexplorata: Toward the Unknown
An instrumental and influential American independent film promoter/curator/supporter/taste-maker in the business, Rooftop Films creator and artistic director Mark Elijah Rosenberg (pictured above) moves from...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bob Byington’s 7 Chinese Brothers
If there is a little Listen Up Philip in the cocktail that will be known as 7 Chinese Brothers, it may have been due to cosmic fate,...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Hannah Fidell’s 6 Years
Potentially filling Sundance's quota for difficult relationships, Hannah Fidell (profiled in our IONCINEPHILE series) will have moved from the heated, self-deprecating rapport between prof...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marc Silver’s 3½
Gun culture, racism and the court system are revolving themes in docu subject matters and if there is a common thread to find between...
