Tag: American Indie Film
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Paul Dano’s Wildlife
Once all the "dust" settled from the Venice and TIFF program announcements, the 2017 film festival calendar hourglass pretty much confirmed that Paul Dano's...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Elizabeth Chomko’s What They Had
In a move rarely seen these days, Bleecker Street's Andrew Karpen swooped in, preemptively landed the rights to What They Had before it even had...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Benh Zeitlin’s Wendy
We've kept our ears peeled to the ground and eyes glued since non-trade related film news began to trickle in 2013, but for the...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Justin Kelly’s Welcome the Stranger
With a breakneck pace output, filmmaker Justin Kelly hasn't wasted much time between features since premiering his debut feature at I Am Michael (review) at...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeremiah Zagar’s We the Animals
Emmy-nominated Jeremiah Zagar last introduced Sundance auds to his 2014 docu look into a prosecution from the masses in Captivated: The Trials of Pamela...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Madeleine Olnek’s Wild Nights with Emily
Now in year three of celebrating our awful predictions with concerns to this title, we finally have a status update and official title to...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Emma Forrest’s Untogether
A journalist turned author, turned scribe (she was on the Blacklist for LIARS (A-E) in 2009) turned helmer, Emma Forrest wrote and directed her...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
We often talk about the all important sophomore film, but the third often yields better results. As might be the case for David Robert...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sebastián Silva’s Tyrel
What does one do when a project falls apart days before shooting? If you're Terry Gilliam you throw your hands up in the air,...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jason Reitman’s Tully
Stamped with an April 20th release date via the Focus Features folks (they picked it up last May), there is no reason to premiere...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jennifer Fox’s The Tale
As they were still putting final touches on the project at the midway point of 2017, and didn't drop in the fall fest season,...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post
One of the choice multi-tasker discoveries of 2014 Sundance edition both behind, and in-front of the camera, Desiree Akhavan recently divulged (to IndieWIRE) just...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Hannah Fidell’s The Long Dumb Road
Having debuted A Teacher (review) at Sundance back in 2013, she saw her next feature 6 Years (review) premiere at SXSW in 2015. Teaming with the...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher
An exciting, first feature film credit as a producer for Maggie Gyllenhaal (creatively she is at an important juncture) this could be the Israeli film...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Bujalski’s Support The Girls
If Andrew Bujalski lands at the fest with his third straight film, we'll officially call him a fixture. On the seen since 2002's Funny...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Meredith Danluck’s State Like Sleep
An artist who doesn't stay put, We thought this directorial debut would have receive the green light same time last year, but aside from...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You
Coming from the world of hip hop, you'd expect Boots Riley to be somewhat of a novice with film in general but a not...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Austin Vesely’s Slice
We had pegged this directorial debut as a possible selection for the last Sundance edition, but the A24 folks worked with a slow cook...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Crystal Moselle’s Skate Girl
If invited to Park City, expect many of the cast for this film to hit the slopes between screenings. With a brief overview of...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matthew Ross’ Siberia
Matthew Ross' first foray into feature films received its world premiere debut at Sundance (read our review) in 2016, and he was quick to...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Mayer’s The Seagull
We were quite surprised that The Seagull didn't drop sometime in 2017, after all, production did take place in 2015. The good news is...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tamara Jenkins’ Private Life
We voiced our hope that we'd see her sometime soon when we launched our inaugural Top 10 American Indie Filmmakers Missing in Action back...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nicolas Pesce’s Piercing
We're honestly a little surprised that Nicolas Pesce's highly anticipated sophomore film didn't drop in 2017 as filming took place earlier in the year. As...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Lowery’s Old Man and the Gun
He was getting ready to hit the editing dock not long after I had the chance to speak to him during the tale end...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jordana Spiro’s Night Comes On
We were pleasantly destabilized by her third, Gummo-esque short film, and as I cited back after the 2013 Sundance edition, Skin (watch here) displayed all...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christina Choe’s Nancy
After building a half dozen short film resume, her feature film debut appears to be the result of a lot of indie blood, sweat...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Debra Granik’s My Abandonment
We likened her to Kelly Reichardt with a cinema that should sprout internationally and so we were genuinely surprised when she didn't drop into...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Josephine Decker’s Movie No. 1
Part of the new wave of idiosyncratic female auteur voices (Sophia Takal, Sarah Adina Smith, Janicza Bravo, Chloé Zhao and Eliza Hittman come to...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anthony Mandler’s Monster
A heavyweight music video helmer for close to two decades, Anthony Mandler's list of creds reads like Jack Kerouac's Famous 'On the Road' scroll....
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ondi Timoner’s Mapplethorpe
Well versed in the music scene, arts and technology, this docu-helmer won Sundance's Grand Jury Prize for Dig! (2004) and followed that up with...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig William Macneill’s Lizzie
Originally this had helmer Pieter Van Hees set to direct, but this would become Craig William Macneill's sophomore film instead. Filming on Lizzie took place in...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nia DaCosta’s Little Woods
Possibly belonging to a Frozen River and Sin Nombre type of harrowing universe where there are no real alternatives, Nia DaCosta's directorial debut will...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nicole Holofcener’s The Land of Steady Habits
She has been a fixture as a creative advisor, panelist and helmer who up until Toronto preemed Enough Said (2013) saw every single one...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jonathan & Josh Baker’s Kin
Prediction: James Franco will be at Sundance. The question is which of the two dozen projects in post-production is most likely to show up?...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bill Oliver’s Jonathan
A film graduate (M.F.A. in Directing from the American Film Institute) who to this point, has had more experience working as a playwright, Bill Oliver...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nijla Mu’min’s Jinn
In a figurative sense, Nijla Mu'min is coming out from the Middle of Nowhere (she was a Production Assistant on Ava DuVernay’s break out Sundance...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jonathan Helpert’s IO
Originally set up with thesps Elle Fanning, Diego Luna and Clay Jeter in the director's chair, IO, the Sundance Institute’s Writers Lab and the...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Reed Morano’s I Think We’re Alone Now
Now that Reed Morano won the Emmy for best director in a drama series for The Handmaid's Tale (read her remarkable process in winning...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Fleming’s Ideal Home
If Andrew Fleming's next film shores up in Park City, it'll be an almost unrecognizable American independent film landscape from the Sundance of then...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeremy Saulnier’s Hold the Dark
A filmmaker we've been keeping tabs on since the late naughts when his Slamdance/SXSW preemed 2007's Murder Party dropped, Jeremy Saulnier played a significant creative role with...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mélanie Laurent’s Galveston
Currently in a creative overdrive with a count of five feature films in just under a half dozen years, Mélanie Laurent began production on...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: A.J. Edwards’ Friday’s Child
A Terrence Malick school of cinema apprentice, there are certain parallels that can be drawn between the ethos, pathos or filmmaker conditioning of A.J. Edwards....
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Olivia Newman’s First Match
Every edition of the Sundance Film Festival we find at least one of them. One of the festival's superpowers is short film programming, and...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s Farming
It's been a good decade since the project arrived in draft form at both Sundance Labs, so once it premieres we'll be able to...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Miguel Arteta’s Duck Butter
Mostly working within the comedy film curriculum, two decades, and now eight feature films in, an habitual of the fest since presenting Star Maps...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot
With the gigantic cluster fuck that is the sinking ship distributor The Weinstein Company, we seriously doubt that Garth Davis' Mary Magdalene will receive...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Tully’s Don’t Leave Home
Austinite Michael Tully packed his bags this past spring, moving from the lobster rouge backdrop of Ocean City, Maryland to the Celtic green meadows...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David & Nathan Zellner’s Damsel
We incorrectly labeled this guesstimate as dropping in 2017 and to be frank, we're a bit surprised that it didn't shore up at the...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joshua Marston’s Come Sunday
A place that can be avoided by obedience to God and his commandments, the Mormons don't see what all the fuss is about like...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ethan Hawke’s Blaze
Yet to be invited to the Sundance ball with his trio of films as a director Chelsea Walls (2001), The Hottest State (2006) and Seymour:...
