Tag: 2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kyle Mooney’s Y2K

With so many A24 items looking for 2024 positioning, we wouldn't be surprised if Kyle Mooney's feature debut waits for the next train to...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Michôd’s Wizards!

Could David Michôd be returning to the fest where he launched Animal Kingdom back in 2010? Now that 2023 has come and gone, it's...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Susanna Fogel’s Winner

Berlinale gave us Reality earlier this year and next January we think we might be seeing Winner - another project that looks at the...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anu Valia’s We Strangers

She pretty much began her film career with a bang winning Sundance's Jury Prize for US Fiction for her short, and then followed that...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joel Potrykus’ Vulcanizadora

A filmmaker synonymous with American indie film but hasn't been picked by Sundance in his first four features in Ape (2012), Buzzard (2014), The...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nicolas Pesce’s Visitation

Both his directorial debut in the glorious micro-budgeted B&W house-of-horrors and in the Portuguese language The Eyes Of My Mother (read review) and his...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Trey Edward Shults Film with The Weeknd

After Krisha (2015), It Comes at Night (2017) and Waves (2019), American indie filmmaker Trey Edward Shults might actually be shooting from both sides...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Pavement / Alex Ross Perry Film

He might be technically retired from what we consider regular fiction filmmaking, but since his TIFF premiered Her Smell back in 2018 Alex Ross...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home

Our most anticipated feature debut films for this year is indeed ready but it'll be dropping in 2024 instead. Perhaps a fest that is...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Laura Chinn’s Suncoast

A recent 2020 Black List ranked un-produced screenplay that quickly moved into production with the support of the Searchlight folks (the film will likely...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ruben Amar & Lola Bessis’ Silver Star

Next up in our predictions list is a filmmaker tandem that gave us micro indie Swim Little Fish Swim - which was selected as...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tolga Karaçelik’s The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer

Completely off trade news radar, we learned that Turkish filmmaker Tolga Karaçelik moved into production on his English-language debut this past June with none-other...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Angarano’s Sacramento

Avenues (2017) filmmaker Michael Angarano is obviously best known for an actor career that has spanned two-plus decades (and most recently seen in Oppenheimer)...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeremy Saulnier’s Rebel Ridge

After Murder Party (2007), the Cannes Film Festival selected Blue Ruin (2013) and Green Room (2015) and TIFF selected Hold the Dark (2018), Jeremy...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bryn Chainey’s Rabbit Trap

We're unable to stamp Rabbit Trap with an actual 2023 production start date so this guesstimate might be completely off but short film and...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lance Hammer’s Queen at Sea

He landed at Sundance in the U.S. Dramatic Competition with Ballast in 2008 and would end up winning the Directing Award and Cinematography Award...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun

Park City has been a fruitful ground for the films on addiction and the next stint in rehab could be Nora Fingscheidt’s fifth feature...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Daniel Minahan’s On Swift Horses

We all know that Sundance is a welcoming launchpad for first-time filmmakers -- and this was indeed the case for Daniel Minahan who shored...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bernardo Britto’s Omni Loop

A sophomore film project (fka Omni Loop Blues) that was selected to participate in the Sundance Institute's 2017 Screenwriters Lab looks be be ready...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Geremy Jasper’s O’Dessa

Sold for a whopping 10 million to Fox Searchlight at Sundance back in '17, Patti Cake$ became a major calling card for Geremy Jasper...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch

Marielle Heller broke out big at Sundance back in 2015 with coming-of-ager The Diary of a Teenage Girl - the pic received a lot...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: RaMell Ross’ The Nickel Boys

Definitely the type of film that could end up jockeying for a position at a fall film festival later in the year instead, RaMell...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ariel Kavoussi’s The Next Big One: A Comedy with Three Potential Problems

Actress Ariel Kavoussi has slowly moved from acting to directing shorts and earlier this year she put together her feature film debut with a...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Zia Anger’s My First Film

Music video director and a Sundance Institute’s Screenwriter’s Intensive participant, we thought Zia Anger's avant-garde feature debut (or is it a sophomore film?) might...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Meryam Joobeur’s Motherhood

After thinking Motherhood might drop at a major film festival in 2023, we are now inclined to think that Meryam Joobeur might actually go...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Benoît Delhomme’s Mother’s Instinct

Another one of those titles that felt more than ready for a 2023 drop, that could be plopped a bit anywhere next year --...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dev Patel’s Monkey Man

Netflix will indeed have a presence at Sundance this year and could showcase a good trio of films and one item that could break...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ti West’s MaXXXine

Sundance and SXSW programmers might be duking it out for the final part in Ti West's trilogy. Critically acclaimed horror films X (2022 -...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding

The world of bodybuilding could be showcased and explored for a second year in a row in Park City --- after Magazine Dreams (which...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tyler Nilson & Michael Schwartz’s Los Frikis

Sundance and SXSW programmers will likely be keeping an eye out on the status of Los Frikis - a raw, true story-type drama that...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Oz Perkins’ Longlegs

A little bit of an oddball project that the folks at NEON would end up grabbing shortly after the film completed production in February...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Isaiah Saxon’s The Legend of Ochi

With professional baggage that includes music video work for the likes of Björk, Panda Bear, Dirty Projectors and Grizzly Bear, Isaiah Saxon has been...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Maxime Giroux’s In Cold Light

With five feature films under his belt, this past summer Maxime Giroux moved into the saddle of his English language debut (2014's Félix et...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Mohan’s Immaculate

He has been to Park City on three different occasions including a pair of features in One Too Many Mornings (2010) and Save the...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Showalter’s The Idea of You

He already has a history with Park City having premiered 2014's They Came Together (which he wrote) and The Big Sick which panned out...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow

Her feature debut We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021) was an official Sundance selection (pandemic edition) but everything indicates that Jane Schoenbrun...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Caitlin Cronenberg’s Humane

We thought there might be a chance of Humane slipping into the 2023 film fest schedule, but Caitlin Cronenberg did  move into production only...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mimi Cave’s Holland, Michigan

Despite the pandemic nixing the physical edition and replacing it with the virtual one, it feels like it didn't snow on Mimi Cave's parade....

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Thea Hvistendahl’s Handling the Undead

It was a casting announcement that brought joy to fans of Joachim Trier's The Worst Person in the World. Actors Renate Reinsve and Anders...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Potsy Ponciroli’s Greedy People

Following the showcase for his sophomore film Old Henry (2021) at the Venice Film Festival, Potsy Ponciroli next landed on Greedy People (formerly titled...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ross Bros.’ Gasoline Rainbow

Gasoline Rainbow had its world premiere in the Orizzonti section at the Venice Film Festival this year with subsequent stops at London BFI and...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marco La Via & Hanna Ladoul’s Funny Birds

While I don't really see a Catherine Deneuve navigating the wintery sidewalks of Main Street, her co-star in Andrea Riseborough could easily be the...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden’s Freaky Tales

The tandem of Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden have been in the indie filmmaking business now for nearly two decades and have a direct...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rachael Holder’s Fleeing

Not much is known on Fleeing - a project which Steven Soderbergh just revealed that he was a producer on. Rachael Holder's previous stints...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sarah Friedland’s Familiar Touch

After a decade of short film and installation work, filmmaker (and choreographer) Sarah Friedland danced into her feature film debut and has been in...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Titus Kaphar’s Exhibiting Forgiveness

They say write what you know and perhaps there will be a lot of truth to the journey that is Exhibiting Forgiveness by first...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Pearce’s Echo Valley

Although his breakthrough work was showcased in the Platform section at TIFF, the tension-filled whodunit Beast starring Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn actually managed...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Johanna Pyykkö’s Ebba

After not shoring up at Cannes or Venice this year, we are now leaning towards the belief that Johanna Pyykkö might be considering early...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Will Joines & Karrie Crouse’s Dust

A project that due to the pandemic saw the lead shifting from Claire Foy to Sarah Paulson, production on Karrie Crouse and Will Joines'...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls

When Focus Features moved Ethan Coen's Drive-Away Dolls from the fall festival slate to it's current February 23rd release date we can imagine that...

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