Tag: 2022 Sundance Film Festival
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chadd Harbold’s Private Property
A filmmaker who goes we back with Sundance when his short film (Asshole) premiered there at 2009, filmmaker Chadd Harbold flirted with the fest...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Amanda Kramer’s Please Baby Please
Currently on an amazing almost film per year streak, Amanda Kramer first landed onto the film festival scene with 2018's Ladyworld (TIFF selection) and...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Quinn Shephard’s Not Okay
With already two decades worth of acting and a feature film under her belt, Quinn Shephard is taking the bull by the horns and...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lorcan Finnegan’s Nocebo
Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan broke out big at the Critic's Week in Cannes with Vivarium and built the kind of post-screening hype that made...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins
2021 came and went and yet New Zealand’s Taika Waititi didn't see his latest hit the fest circuit - perhaps it has to do...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nikyata Jusu’s Nanny
If you bump into Leonean-American filmmaker Nikyata Jusu make sure to ask for lottery numbers. The filmmaker has been riding on a wave of...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ray Romano’s Mr. Russo
After the long career in front of the camera, and recent work with Martin Scorsese, Reed Morano, and a recent raft of indie filmmakers,...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Lehman’s Meet Cute
Incrementally knocking on Indiewood's door with 2016's Blue Jay (TIFF world premiere) and 2019's Paddleton (Sundance Film Festival world premiere), Alex Lehman got behind...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mariama Diallo’s Master
Successfully having your short film selected for the Sundance Film Festival is going into it with odds stacked against you. Leaving the fest with...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Katie Aselton’s Mack & Rita
After directing her first two features (both Sundance entires) in The Freebie (2010) and Black Rock (2012), Katie Aselton would move more into her...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anna Paavilainen’s Kikka!
With every fest edition there has been a rich component dedicated to music - celluloid go hand and hand with musical notes hence the...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jason Orley’s I Want You Back
Jason Orley's Big Time Adolescence (I want to say is among the first legit Pete Davidson roles in film) premiered to 2019 Sundance Film...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ It Is In Us All
An actress with almost two decades under her belt, Antonia Campbell-Hughes slowly got her feet wet directing some smaller short films and then got...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s I.S.S.
In 2013, Gabriela Cowperthwaite won over critics and Sundance auds alike with her docu Blackfish - a box office hit that happened to make...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Babak Anvari’s I Came By
After blasting out of Sundance with breakout hit Under the Shadow (2016) and following that up with a sophomore item featuring a strung out...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Adamma Ebo’s Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul
Adamma Ebo got her baptism into feature filmmaking this past summer when she expanded her short 2018 film of the (almost) the same title...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Hanna Bergholm’s Hatching
After more than a decade in filmmaking with a half dozen shorts and a children's TV Series under her belt, perhaps Sundance will throw...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sophie Hyde’s Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
It may become a once, twice, and third selection is a charm for filmmaker Sophie Hyde this coming January. The Aussie helmer saw her...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anna Rose Holmer & Saela Davis’ God’s Creatures
After delivering the goods with one of the best directorial debuts (and Sundance Film Festival NEXT section selections) in recent memory, for her sophomore...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Billy Luther’s Frybread Face and Me
Among all the items unveiled in our set of Sundance predictions, Billy Luther's film is the one we believe that most recently wrapped up....
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All at Once
We were in the mindset that thought that a 2021 playdate was in the cards for Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's Everything Everywhere All...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men
A two decade filmography that includes five features films, a steady supply of short films and emphasis on docu items, it's Mark Jenkin's last...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Patton Ford’s Emily The Criminal
After getting a taste for what the film world has to offer when his thesis film Patrol premiered at the 2010 edition of the...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Frances O’Connor’s Emily
After Maggie and Rebecca showcased their skillset behind the camera for 2021 premieres, we continue that trend with veteran British-Australian actress Frances O’Connor making...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Riley Stearns’ Dual
Riley Stearns headed to the Nordic country for his latest feature. Filmed during the pandemic, the shot in Finland Dual should have had enough...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Laura Baumeister’s Daughter of Rage
Laura Baumeister's Daughter of Rage might not have yet premiered at a major film festival but there is nonetheless lots of traction for the...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Cooper Raiff’s Cha Cha Real Smooth
Pandemic year could have been a disaster for Cooper Raiff as his debut was to premiere during SXSW but then got kiboshed due to...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Roger Ross Williams’ Cassandro
Celebrated Oscar-winner and Sundance regular (for his docu output) with 2013's God Loves Uganda and 2016's Life, Animated, Roger Ross Williams made a curious...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Phyllis Nagy’s Call Jane
Finishing just a tad too late for entry into the 2021 autumn film fest schedule, Protagonist Pictures will gift Call Jane at some major...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Eli Stern’s California King
A comedy-caper flick that could easily end up at Sundance, SXSW or even Tribeca, California King comes from prod company Vanishing Angle folks and...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christos Massalas’ Broadway
A 30-something Greek-born filmmaker who has checkboxed major stops on the international film festival circuit with his short film output, Christos Massalas could have...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Luca Guadagnino’s Bones & All
He had Call Me By Your Name have its world premiere in Park City, so Luca Guadagnino's first American shot film project in Bones...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Halina Reijn’s Bodies, Bodies, Bodies
Filmmaker Chloe Okuno was originally tapped to direct the project, but this would land in the lap of Halina Reijn. The actress-turned director who...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Del Kathryn Barton’s Blaze
A creative mind that appears to know no bounds, Aussie-based artist Del Kathryn Barton moved from the blank canvas to the film beginning with...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mel Eslyn’s Biosphere
A veteran film producer on the American indie scene for more than a decade now (plus a generous helping on television series in the...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Dosunmu’s Beauty
Originally slated for a 2021 release, the Netflix folks appear to have switched their strategy on Andrew Dosunmu's fifth feature film. A long time...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10½
We thought this might be ready on time for last year's fest (it's an animated film folks - always tough to predict) but Netflix...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tig Notaro & Stephanie Allynne’s Am I Ok?
Perhaps a great option for the festival in terms of laugher fare, Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne team together for what is not their...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Raven Jackson’s All Dirt Roads Taste Of Salt
While this definitely feels like a bonafide Sundance film, of all the predictions you'll find here we have no idea how far into the...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Frank Berry’s Aisha
Moving from a tragi-docudrama I Used to Live Here (2014) to what appears to be a very raw prison system film in Michael Inside...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: A.V. Rockwell’s A Thousand and One
Padding her resumé with a pair of buzzy items in a (late 2016) 20+ minute music video commissioned by Alicia Keys called The Gospel...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: 75 Predictions For a Hybrid Edition
How well you adapt to new situations determines how relevant you remain. Of the 2021 edition, Jonas Poher Rasmussen's Flee appears to be a...
