Tag: 2021 Sundance Film Festival
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chase Palmer’s Naked Singularity
We were anticipating a showing of Naked Singularity at last year's edition of Sundance and of course it didn't land anywhere else this year...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sia’s Music
A project that took its sweet time to arrive will finally be unveiled next February and could technically nab a Sundance slot as a...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Amy Poehler’s Moxie
Moving into the direction of filmmaking with a trio of directed episodes for Parks and Recreation, 2016's TV Movie Dumb Prince, and her first...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ana Lily Amirpour’s Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon
A Sundance Film Festival darling back in 2014 for the Iranian vampire spaghetti western A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (read review), she would...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Karen Cinorre’s Mayday
Getting to go creatively madcap with art/set decor on the Isabella Rossellini starring Green Porno series, New Yorker Karen Cinorre made the jump to...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dean Fleischer-Camp’s Marcel the Shell
A stop-motion animated short film that took on a life of its own and snowballed into all sorts of creative items after Marcel the...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ian Samuels’ The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
Rising starlet Kathryn Newton (who we just saw in Freaky - read review) toplines this sophomore feature -- an Amazon Studios backed fantasy project...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sam Levinson’s Malcolm & Marie
With the switch in Academy Award dates for 2021, many were suggesting that February was the "new" December and that a fest like Sundance...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Camilleri’s Luzzu
Working as an associate editor on a trio of recent Ramin Bahrani films (At Any Price, 99 Homes, Fahrenheit 451), Alex Camilleri has been...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Will Sharpe’s Louis Wain
A relatively new talent both in front and behind the camera, Will Sharpe starred in Netflix drama Giri/Haji, directed quirky British comedy Flowers, is...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Clara Roquet’s Libertad
We advanced the idea same time last year mentioning that this directorial debut checks off a lot of boxes in terms of the type...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Edoardo Vitaletti’s The Last Thing Mary Saw
A directorial debut from a talent who is a complete unknown to us, New York based Italian filmmaker Edoardo Vitaletti enlisted the likes of...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Augustine Frizzell’s The Last Letter From Your Lover
Filmmaker/actress Augustine Frizzell's sophomore feature could have perhaps preemed in 2020, but it looks like 2021 was perhaps a better bet. A Netflix project...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robin Wright’s Land
After getting the directing bug on the House of Cards for just under a dozen episodes, Robin Wright moved into the director's chair for...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marco Perego Saldana’s Keyhole Garden
If we had to look at all the line-ups of the fest for the past two decades we'd find at least one "border" drama...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christopher Makoto Yogi’s I Was a Simple Man
His debut feature August at Akiko’s premiered at the 2018 Intl. Rotterdam Film Festival and he quickly followed this up by with his sophomore...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Adam Leon’s Italian Studies
When 2021 kicks off, Vanessa Kirby will be in Poland working on Brady Corbet's The Brutalist while in the streaming world (and whatever arthouses...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Stephen Karam’s The Humans
Production on Stephen Karam's move into film directing via his own one-act play of the same name, the A24 folks got behind the project...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Stacey Gregg’s Here Before
Shoring up at Sundance with five films in the past two editions (Mandy, Nancy, Burden, Possessor, Luxor) Andrea Riseborough could once again be linked...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Barry Levinson’s Harry Haft
Despite the Covid, I'm surprised that this biopic directed by the always busy veteran helmer Barry Levinson didn't shore up at some fest in...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anthony Lucero’s Halo of Stars
Perhaps taking a cue from Executive Producer Terrence Malick in terms of amount of time spent in post, Anthony Lucero's directorial debut Halo of...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Lowery’s The Green Knight
Due to have been released just after it's launch at the SXSW film festival, A24 haven't been fleeing their fate with The Green Knight...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Julian Higgins’ God’s Country
Los Angeles based filmmaker Julian Higgins (a past Student Academy Award winner) began tinkering around with the long form of his current project with...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jude Weng’s Finding Ohana
This year's Wendy might be a film from another far off destination in Hawaii. Jude Weng's directorial debut Finding Ohana is a film about...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Lee’s False Positive
Another A24 horror title project waiting to burst into the public space director John Lee and Ilana Glazer combined forces for False Positive -...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Showalter’s The Eyes of Tammy Faye
A Fox Searchlight project that has been fermenting for some time now and that got a firm greenlight October 2019 in Charlotte, North Carolina...