Tag: 2019 Sundance Film Festival
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...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #50. Julius Onah – Luce
Part of his "American Lives" output, production on Luce took place in November of 2017 and becomes Julius Onah's third feature following in the footsteps of the...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #49. Peter Sattler – Love & Oatmeal
Peter Sattler could very well be making a return trip to Sundance following up 2014's Camp X-Ray (we called it a remarkable screenwriting and...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #48. Casey Affleck – Light of My Life
Post Manchester by the Sea, in February of 2017, Casey Affleck began filming Light of My Life in British Columbia’s Okanagan valley. Significantly slowing...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #47. Robert Eggers – The Light House
Robert Pattinson recently admitted that filming on The Light House was "the closest I’ve come to punching a director". Not exactly Kinski-Herzog in nature, but we...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #46. Joe Talbot – Last Black Man in San Francisco
Perhaps making the leap from former short filmmaker alumni (2017's American Paradise) to debuting his directorial debut, Sundance are not the only ones to...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #45. Jennifer Reeder – Knives and Skin
An artist and film fest circuit habitual, filmmaker Jennifer Reeder's looks to be moving out of the short film sphere (the Sundance selected 2014 short A...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #44. Dan Krauss – The Kill Team
Who better to adapt non-fic to fiction than .... the filmmaker himself. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Tribeca...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #43. Maya Newell – Kids (Docu)
Not a remake of the seminal Larry Clark film but rather a project about First Nations and the generations of children stuck on the...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #42. Mirrah Foulkes – Judy and Punch
For those who want to get into the Anomalisa mindset, you might want to look out for this number from down under. Actress (Sundance...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #41. Taika Waititi – Jojo Rabbit
A longstanding friend of the festival (I think I've walked by him three dozen times at the HQ in Park City), Taika Waititi might...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #40. Liza Mandelup – Jawline (Docu)
Featured as one of Filmmaker Mag's 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2017, it's the close proximity with her subjects (perhaps in the same...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #39. Jonathan Helpert – IO
2018 came and will have went and IO will not have dropped. Perhaps there is a lot more after effect works demanded for this...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #38. Rania Attieh & Daniel Garcia – Initials S.G.
Recently featuring their film at the American Film Festival's US In Progress in Wroclaw, the team of Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia look to...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #37. Petra Costa – Impeachment (Docu)
A slow cook process on a hot button topic, Petra Costa's third feature film was a Sundance Institute invitee for the 2018 Documentary Edit and Story...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #36. Alejandro Fernández Almendras – Hra
Sundance love their Chilean cinema and have had a great rapport with Alejandro Fernández Almendras in the past showcasing his 2014 Grand Jury Prize...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #35. Brett Story – The Hottest August (Docu)
A subject close to Robert Redford's heart, climate change has been haphazardly handled in the likes of An Inconvenient Truth and perhaps The Hottest August...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #34. Stephen Gurewitz – Honky Kong
Apart from a work in progress industry screening in Wroclaw during the American Film Fest in 2017, there is very little info on Stephen...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #33. Alma Har’el – Honey Boy
A fruitful creative collab that began with a music vid for Sigur Rós and added support for her sophomore film LoveTrue, Alma Har’el and...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #32. Steven Soderbergh – High Flying Bird
Taking a page not from Sean Baker, but from his own proclivity to shoot on the format which best suits the narrative's needs, Steven...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #31. Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe – He Dreams of Giants (Docu)
Premiering in Cannes with a whimper, Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote might actually benefit from the circulation of a making of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #30. Nabil Elderkin – Gully
An American photographer, turned music video director turned filmmaker who found fortune via a peculiar Kanye West encounter, American-Iranian Nabil Elderkin (who was among...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #29. Christoph Waltz – Georgetown
Surprisingly not unspooling at TIFF last September at the same time as the Green Book brouhaha, actor Christoph Waltz completed shooting on his directorial...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #28. Elizabeth Stopford – Forgiveness (Docu)
Hereditary gave Park City a January jolt....so perhaps, Elizabeth Stopford's Forgiveness can do the same for the docu realm. Developed with Film4 and the Sundance...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #27. Josh Trank – Fonzo
It's time to say goodbye to the De Niro Capone touch from The Untouchables. A meatier, bulkier project that would certainly rev up Sundance audiences,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #26. Don Argott & Sheena M. Joyce – Framing John DeLorean
A potential midnight film for car enthusiasts and 80s aficionados alike, if Sundance doesn't go all gull-wing out on it, then SXSW or Tribeca...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #25. Joe Berlinger – Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile
After being a no-show among fests in 2018, it looks like Joe Berlinger's Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile is poised for a Park...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #24. Craig Roberts – Eternal Beauty
Not really the dark horse pick selection that was his feature debut, actor Craig Roberts has been to the fest beforehand (Richard Ayoade’s Submarine...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #23. Wash Westmoreland – The Earthquake Bird
Working once again with what might be a strong female protagonist and adapted source material, Wash Westmoreland boarded The Earthquake Bird in August of 2016 and production...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #22. Andrew Ahn – Driveways
After the critically acclaimed Spa Night, (2016 Sundance Film Fest selection) Andrew Ahn moved into the television sphere with a half dozen episodes of This...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #21. Miles Joris-Peyrafitte – Dreamland
Miles Joris-Peyrafitte could make it 2-for-2 in Park City with his sophomore feature film, Dreamland. Winner of a Special Jury Prize in 2016 when...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #20. Daniel Isn’t Real – Adam Egypt Mortimer
While it could be a long shot for a festival submission seeing that the production took place in July, Adam Egypt Mortimer could sneak...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #19. Patrick Brice – Corporate Animals
Pretty much working non-stop since 2014's Creep, Patrick Brice's only Sundance stop as been the acerbic The Overnight Earlier in the summer in New Mexico,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #18. Tom Quinn – Colewell
A project that he developed through the Biennale College - Cinema, alongside The Fits cinematographer Paul Yee, Tom Quinn probably shot his sophomore film...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #17. Annie Silverstein – Bull
Selected for the 2016 Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs (here is a video interview), and recipient of the San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #16. Chiwetel Ejiofor – The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
With a recent Netflix pick-up, the distrib will have to figure out if it'll throw Chiwetel Ejiofor’s directorial debut The Boy Who Harnessed the...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #15. Nanfu Wang & Lynn Zhang – Born in China (Docu)
Working in an almost doc per year pace since launching big with the award winning Hooligan Sparrow (double winner at the Cinema Eye Honors...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #14. Olivia Wilde – Booksmart
After more than a decade in front of the camera, actress Olivia Wilde turned music video directing gigs of Red Hot Chili Peppers and...
