Tag: 2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: The Scorecard Before the Announcements
Later today, the Sundance Film Fest unveil their 2019 line-up. Taking a Thierry Fremaux Cannes approach, the fest will be annoucing their programming offerings...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #100. Alex Winter – Zappa
With Sundance having premiered Thorsten Schütte's Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words just a couple of years back, perhaps they'll not...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #99. Alistair Banks Griffin – The Wolf Hour
Shooting took place in November of 2017 on Alistair Banks Griffin's sophomore feature and a cast of Naomi Watts, Jennifer Ehle, Kelvin Harrison Jr.,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #97. & #98. Richard Linklater – Where’d You Go, Bernadette & Untitled Moon Landing Project
In an almost film per eighteen months pace, Richard Linklater might have not one, but two features released in 2019....and perhaps the filmmaker will...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #96. Benh Zeitlin – Wendy
With the amount of time being put into the post production portion of the process, I doubt that sophomore jinx will be applicable here. Wendy is...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #95. Trey Edward Shults – Waves
Trey Edward Shults blasted onto the scene with his award winning SXSW, Cannes debut Krisha (2015) which was followed up with It Comes at...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #94. Untitled Roger Ross Williams – Apollo Theater Docu
A celebrated docu filmmaker (his 2010 short Music by Prudence won Oscar) outside of the festival, Roger Ross Williams' second home is indeed Park...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #93. Untitled Penny Lane – Religious Activism Documentary
Proselytism can sometimes send people to canoe to remote islands with inhospitable tribe habitants. Penny Lane has found some docu zealots among programmers (her...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #92. Untitled Noah Baumbach Comedy
While Netflix held off at showing the pic during the fall season, there is no reason to think that they won't premiere in early...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #91. Untitled Miranda July Crime Drama
We're not sure if the Madeline's Madeline experience put Miranda July into the let's make a movie spirit, but shortly after premiering last January...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #90. Untitled Lulu Wang Comedy
Her debut film in 2014's Posthumous (Jack Huston and Brit Marling) went mostly unseen, but something tells me this currently untitled American-Asian family comedy...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #89. Untitled Christopher Morris Comedy
Christopher Morris brought Four Lions to Sundance in 2010, and his follow up went into production in the summer of 2017 in the Dominican...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #88. Untitled Alex Lehmann Duplass Brothers/Ray Romano Comedy
Part of the larger Duplass Bros. family that keeps growing, Alex Lehmann saw his directorial debut Blue Jay get launched at TIFF and shortly...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #87. Owen Kline – Two Against Nature
The by-product of acting royalty, Criterion connoisseur, and child actor in The Squid and the Whale, Owen Kline's debut was briefly mentioned in a...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #86. Rodrigo Bellott – Tu Me Manques
One of the producers on the 2013 Sundance entry We Are What We Are, Bolivian filmmaker Rodrigo Bellott was his country's foreign film category...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #85. Babak Anvari – Transgression
Another Sundance alumni who broke out big at the fest with Under the Shadow, Babak Anvari quickly lined up a pair of projects with...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #84. Scott Z. Burns – The Torture Report
It would be kind of neat to see Scott Z. Burns premiere his directorial debut at the same time as his frequent collaborator Steven...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #83. Martha Stephens – To the Stars
Martha Stephens' fourth feature film follows in the footsteps of Land Ho! (Sundance '14). With filming having taken place in May, starring Shea Whigham, Malin Akerman,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #82. Lynn Shelton – Sword of Trust
A project she likens to her 2009 film Humpday, described as an improvisational type of production, Lynn Shelton's eighth feature film in Sword of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #81. J.D. Dillard – Sweetheart
The only J.D. Dillard related news to drop in 2018 was that he co-wrote Joe Sill’s directorial debut project Stray. Another tight-lipped Blumhouse production...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #80. Carlo Mirabella-Davis – Swallow
After a false start of sorts, Carlo Mirabella-Davis will finally be premiering the France-US co-production and his directorial debut Swallow in 2019. His past...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #79. David Wnendt – The Sunlit Night
David Wnendt broke out big (so did his star Carla Juri) with his four feature film 2013's Wetlands (read review). With a US and...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #78. Julian Jarrold – Sulphur And White
Julian Jarrold showcased Kinky Boots at Sundance way back in 2005 and premiered the likes of Becoming Jane (2007), Brideshead Revisited (2008), and A...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #77. Hannah Pearl Utt – Stupid Happy
Moving from Disengaged the TV Series to Disengaged the feature, Hannah Pearl Utt received a helping hand (and so did producer Mallory Schwartz) for...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #76. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson – Someone Great
Considered ahead of its time, writer-director-producer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson parlayed her canceled MTV’s Sweet/Vicious gig into a directorial debut featuring the likes of Brittany Snow,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #75. Josephine Decker – Shirley
Josephine Decker's Madeline's Madeline was next level for the filmmaker and so it was no surprise when she joined a project that was already in...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #74. Pippa Bianco – Share
In less than two weeks from now, we should be finding out what the final title is for Pippa Bianco's feature length version which...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #73. Selah and the Spades – Tayarisha Poe
Receiving a ton of support along the way, the micro-budgeted Selah and the Spades went into production this summer in Tayarisha Poe's backyard of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #72. David Gutnik – Russian American
Brooklyn-born and based David Gutnik has been chipping away at Russian American (formerly Brighton Beach) since 2016, with post perhaps being further delayed because...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #71. Sebastian Schipper – Roads
Exploding onto the scene with his fourth feature film in 2015's Victoria (read review) which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, Sebastien Schipper actually...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #70. Gideon Raff – The Red Sea Diving Resort
Perhaps in the same programming methodology as when Sundance included Brad Anderson's Beirut in their 2018 line-up, STX will get to launch Gideon Raff's...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #69. Matt Wolf – Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
More or less working on what we can imagine was a bewildering docu project for the past four years, NYC based filmmaker Matt Wolf's Recorder:...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #68. Calvin Reeder – The Procedure 2 (Short)
Already a long history with the fest, Calvin Reeder has premiered his features at the fest in The Oregonian (Sundance ’11) and The Rambler (Sundance ’13),...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #67. Keola Racela – Porno
Working in the short form and picking up Sundance film experiences by being an art dept. intern on David Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche and...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #66. Ritesh Batra – Photograph
Post The Lunchbox fame (his well traveled Film Fest favorite which was also shown at Sundance in 2014), Ritesh Batra hit a creative cluster mark with Our Souls...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #65. Michael Tyburski – Palimpsest
Based on the 2013 Sundance short that would win a Special Jury Award, Michael Tyburski's feature version of the Palimpsest has been receiving a...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #64. Jacob Estes – Only You
Jacob Estes could be making it a Sundance trifecta with Mean Creek (2004) and The Details (2011) being joined Only You - a horror, sci-fi, thriller that...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #63. Jessica Oreck – One Man Dies a Million Times (Docu)
Pretty much on a breakneck pace since she introduced us to Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo in 2009 (here is our interview), there has been...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #62. Several Filmmakers – Omniboat: A Fastboat Fantasia
The production companies behind of Madeline's Madeline (Bow + Arrow) and the Borscht Corporation put together a mystery project in what is now being...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #61. Jennifer Kent – The Nightingale
Sundance was a major launch pad for Jennifer Kent's The Babadook and it could be the lieu for the US premiere (nabbing one of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #60. Michael Cristofer – The Night Clerk
While we commonly associate Sundance with youngling breakout talents, young-at-heart Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, screenwriter (Bonfire of the Vanities) and actor (most recently Evil...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #59. Rashid Johnson – Native Son
Perhaps the most alluring offering on A24's slate for 2019 is the ode to 1930's Chicago and African American identity debut film from conceptual...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #58. My Zoe – Julie Delpy
Her seventh feature film since 2002's Looking for Jimmy, Julie Delpy went into production My Zoe back in May in Berlin and Moscow. Of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #57. Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre – Mustang
Having gone into production in November of 2017 and not having a festival berth in 2018 meant that the Sundance 2019 was part of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #56. Sia – Music
After blasting a whole bunch of originality in the texts found Brady Corbet's Vox Lux, I'm ready for a second helping of film-based creativity...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #55. Rick Alverson – The Mountain
There are a slew of festival preemed goodies in Her Smell, Birds of Passage, Donnybrook, High Life, Gloria Bell, Fistful of Dirt and even Errol...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #54. Alejandro Landes – Monos
Alejandro Landes flagged the Sundance folks early in his career, premiering his directorial debut in the docu Cocalero way back in 2007 prior to being...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #53. Asif Kapadia – Maradona
With a bit of Hand of God luck, football fans (some people call it soccer) would rejoice if Asif Kapadia made his third trip this...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #52. Matt Aselton – Lying and Stealing
You'd been forgiven if you've forgotten the name of Matt Aselton who, a decade earlier, made his directorial debut with Gigantic - a film...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #51. Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala’s The Lodge
They broke out big when Venice, TIFF and Sitges handed them invites for their 2014 horror film Goodnight Mommy (read review) and Veronika Franz and Severin...
