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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...
Drive My Car | Review
Lamprey Love: The Play’s the Thing in Hamaguchi’s Brooding Saga of Regrets
“When one has no real life, one lives on illusions,” is one of...
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...
C’mon C’mon | Review
Turn the Dial: Mills Explores the Mysteries of Youth, Exalted.
Mike Mills’ C’mon C’mon is a poignant, mellow ode to the next generation, explored through...
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn | Review
Stand & Deliver: Jude Doubles Up on the Viral in Kangaroo Court
Leave it to Radu Jude to take a sad song and make it...
The Power of the Dog | Review
Dog Days Aren’t Over: Campion Returns with Menacing Gothic Western
Although Jane Campion’s work in television has created an innovative and expansive platform for the...
Uppercase Print | Review
Capital Crimes: The Play’s the Thing in Jude’s Rendering of Secret Police Files
Romanian director Radu Jude lets no grass grow under his feet, back...
Spencer | Review
In the Name of the Rose: Larrain Crafts Empathetic Portrait of an Icon in Anguish
The eternal impact of Diana, Princess of Wales, whose...
The Harder They Fall [Video Review]
Zest of the West: Samuels’ Western Soap Opera Long on Style, Short on Substance
In a film which plays as both recuperation and revisionism,...
Interview: Jim Cummings & PJ McCabe – The Beta Test
In real life, Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe are close friends, bickering and chiding one another as they join our Zoom for an interview....
Sisters | Review
O Brother, Where Art Thou?: Benguigui Explores Fractured Cultural Identities in Meta Drama
It’s been two decades since French-Algerian filmmaker Yamina Benguigui released her exceptional...
Video Interview: Producer Natalie Metzger – The Beta Test / Werewolves Within
Natalie Metzger is that producer of indie darlings who always seems to have multiple feature films in any given festival. You may know Metzger...
Antlers | Review
The Killing of a Sacred Deer: Cooper Wanders Unevenly into Indigenous Lore
Director Scott Cooper moves beyond the comfort of his melodramatic roots with Antlers,...
Interview: Joanna Hogg & Honor Swinton Byrne – The Souvenir Part II
After premiering in the Directors' Fortnight and landing at the New York Film Festival, The Souvenir Part II - filmmaker Joanna Hogg’s highly-anticipated follow...
Only the Animals | Review
Catfish People: Moll Returns to the Ripple Effects of Identity Issues
In the early 2000s, German born Dominik Moll was a fast-rising director of contemporary...
Cicada | Review
Triumph Over Trauma: Fifer & Mulcare Mine Catharsis with Poignant, Intersectional Drama
The importance of representation is a concept which, like many conceits, is more...
Last Night in Soho | Review
Profondo Glosso: Wright Falters with Glossy, Pseudo-Feminist Ghost Story
Opening upon joyful musical reverie and descending into vibrant color palettes, Edgar Wright’s attempt at...
Passing | Review
The Skin I Live In: Hall Formulates an Elegant, Devastating Adaptation of Nella Larsen
For those who have had the pleasure of reading either of...
