Tag: 2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Paddy Considine’s Journeyman
Seeing all the buzz that came about with the brutally honest triage drama with starlets Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman and Eddie Marsan in the...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Rivera & Cristina Ibarra’s The Infiltrators
Wasn't that long ago we were complaining about Sleep Dealer helmer Alex Rivera's lack of output. We found out midway this year that he...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Trey Edward Shults’ It Comes at Night
While luck and talent go hand in hand, you might want to ask Trey Edward Shults to pick out lottery numbers for all the...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dustin Guy Defa’s Human People
I've been wrong before and so I don't like using the term a shoe-in, but I'd be one of the folks to fall out...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Cameron Mitchell’s How to Talk to Girls at Parties
We've got one month left in the 2016 calendar and the top titles that should have dropped in this year happen to come from Sundance...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Brett Haley’s The Hero
Looks like Woody isn't the only cowboy picking up dust. In terms of Sundance good fortune, Brett Haley's sophomore feature, I’ll See You In My...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Turturro’s Going Places
Curiosity factor is through the roof with this one and perhaps not all bets are off with John Turturro essentially lifting one memorable character...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Ross Perry’s Golden Exits
Not to Pooh Pooh on the selection process (forgive the pun), but the last time I predicted an Alex Ross Perry film was going...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Aaron Katz’s Gemini
In his quiet ascension from micro indie filmmaker (2005's All the Stage Is a World, 2006's Dance Party, USA, 2007's Quiet City, 2010's Cold...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alethea Jones’ Fun Mom Dinner
Sundance programmers looking to add some funny bone component to the line-up might be looking towards Aussie, L.A. based filmmaker Alethea Jones' female-centric comedy....
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Carlos Puga’s Full-Dress
Having creatively immersed himself as a docu producer and direct on a handful of MTV's True Life Series,
Carlos Puga first broke into Sundance with his...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Max Winkler’s Flower
First rising to surface as one of the better unproduced screenplays on the 2012 Blacklist (it had the same number of votes as Whiplash...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sean Baker’s The Florida Project
Not unlike how we feel about the road trip formula, there is no shortage of or love lost for: kids drifting off into ruined...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christopher Dillon Quinn’s Eating Animals
It's been a long decade plus wait since Christopher Dillon Quinn's Sundance Grand Jury Prize/Audience Award winning God Grew Tired of Us (2006) disarmed...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Adam Keleman’s Easy Living
Adam Keleman is the type of first time filmmaker we admire: learn the craft, be a fly on the wall and stay hungry. With...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Charlie McDowell’s The Discovery
Up until the recent unveiling of A Walk into the Woods at the fest, I'm fairly certain that to see a Robert Redford film...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Oren Moverman’s The Dinner
I don't recall the last time a novel had three book to film adaptations in such a rapid lapse of time, but the source...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anthony Onah’s Dara Ju
A project that has been long in the works for a while now as it was originally a short of the same name, Dara...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Zellner’s Damsel
While the Safdie Bros. are likely en route to Cannes or Venice with the other Robert Pattinson vehicle Good Time, we'll likely saddle up...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matt Ruskin’s Crown Heights
A rather remarkable, perhaps rare, but not unheard true life story of false imprisonment and the type of stubborn dedication it selflessly takes to...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Patrick Brice’s Creep 2
We had an inkling that Patrick Brice would shore up at Sundance back in 2015, but we hadn't the faintest idea that The Overnight would be the huge...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matthew Heineman’s City of Ghosts
No stranger to conflict zone coverage and harm's way, when it was announced this past summer that the award winning docu filmmaker would move...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kitty Green’s Casting JonBenet
Don't have to look far out into Sundance's past for samples of the docu form being challenged, incinerated and invigorated. While Kate Plays Christine...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gerard McMurray’s Burning Sands
An early collaborator with filmmaker phenom Ryan Coogler (he would associate produce Fruitvale Station aka Fruitvale), we're not sure when Netflix gave their vote...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Showalter’s The Big Sick
Sometimes a given film isn't ready, or is not quite the good fit for Sundance, which only means that whatever they pass on benefits...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Eliza Hittman’s Beach Rats
Now that Ana Lily Amirpour has delivered The Bad Batch at Venice and TIFF, and The Babadook's Jennifer Kent might not be ready until...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ryan Koo’s Amateur
As detailed by the filmmaker/nofilmschool.com Founding Editor himself, it was no easy task to land a coveted Sundance institute spot but not unlike perfecting your...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Angus MacLachlan’s Abundant Acreage Available
City and small town folk colliding come full circle again as the writer of Junebug (Indie Spirits nominated Best First Screenplay) proposes a conflict of interest in another...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Vincent Grashaw’s And Then I Go
As a producer for Evan Glodell's Bellflower, filmmaker Vincent Grashaw certainly knows what it takes to get into Sundance and perhaps banking on the...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Brian Shoaf’s Aardvark
Shot in NYC exactly one year to date, for his directorial debut, actor, playwright and now filmmaker Brian Shoaf landed Zachary Quinto, Jenny Slate and Jon...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra
Truth be told, there are film fest programmer folk from the Croisette and the Lido itching to get their hands on world preem for...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: An Introduction
While we usually associate day one in Park City with thin air, this quickly dissipates and gets replaced in the overall film output with...
