Tag: top-stories
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #87. Owen Kline – Two Against Nature
The by-product of acting royalty, Criterion connoisseur, and child actor in The Squid and the Whale, Owen Kline's debut was briefly mentioned in a...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #86. Rodrigo Bellott – Tu Me Manques
One of the producers on the 2013 Sundance entry We Are What We Are, Bolivian filmmaker Rodrigo Bellott was his country's foreign film category...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #85. Babak Anvari – Transgression
Another Sundance alumni who broke out big at the fest with Under the Shadow, Babak Anvari quickly lined up a pair of projects with...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #84. Scott Z. Burns – The Torture Report
It would be kind of neat to see Scott Z. Burns premiere his directorial debut at the same time as his frequent collaborator Steven...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #83. Martha Stephens – To the Stars
Martha Stephens' fourth feature film follows in the footsteps of Land Ho! (Sundance '14). With filming having taken place in May, starring Shea Whigham, Malin Akerman,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #82. Lynn Shelton – Sword of Trust
A project she likens to her 2009 film Humpday, described as an improvisational type of production, Lynn Shelton's eighth feature film in Sword of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #81. J.D. Dillard – Sweetheart
The only J.D. Dillard related news to drop in 2018 was that he co-wrote Joe Sill’s directorial debut project Stray. Another tight-lipped Blumhouse production...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #80. Carlo Mirabella-Davis – Swallow
After a false start of sorts, Carlo Mirabella-Davis will finally be premiering the France-US co-production and his directorial debut Swallow in 2019. His past...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #79. David Wnendt – The Sunlit Night
David Wnendt broke out big (so did his star Carla Juri) with his four feature film 2013's Wetlands (read review). With a US and...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #78. Julian Jarrold – Sulphur And White
Julian Jarrold showcased Kinky Boots at Sundance way back in 2005 and premiered the likes of Becoming Jane (2007), Brideshead Revisited (2008), and A...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #77. Hannah Pearl Utt – Stupid Happy
Moving from Disengaged the TV Series to Disengaged the feature, Hannah Pearl Utt received a helping hand (and so did producer Mallory Schwartz) for...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #76. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson – Someone Great
Considered ahead of its time, writer-director-producer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson parlayed her canceled MTV’s Sweet/Vicious gig into a directorial debut featuring the likes of Brittany Snow,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #75. Josephine Decker – Shirley
Josephine Decker's Madeline's Madeline was next level for the filmmaker and so it was no surprise when she joined a project that was already in...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #74. Pippa Bianco – Share
In less than two weeks from now, we should be finding out what the final title is for Pippa Bianco's feature length version which...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #73. Selah and the Spades – Tayarisha Poe
Receiving a ton of support along the way, the micro-budgeted Selah and the Spades went into production this summer in Tayarisha Poe's backyard of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #72. David Gutnik – Russian American
Brooklyn-born and based David Gutnik has been chipping away at Russian American (formerly Brighton Beach) since 2016, with post perhaps being further delayed because...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #71. Sebastian Schipper – Roads
Exploding onto the scene with his fourth feature film in 2015's Victoria (read review) which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, Sebastien Schipper actually...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #70. Gideon Raff – The Red Sea Diving Resort
Perhaps in the same programming methodology as when Sundance included Brad Anderson's Beirut in their 2018 line-up, STX will get to launch Gideon Raff's...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #69. Matt Wolf – Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
More or less working on what we can imagine was a bewildering docu project for the past four years, NYC based filmmaker Matt Wolf's Recorder:...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #68. Calvin Reeder – The Procedure 2 (Short)
Already a long history with the fest, Calvin Reeder has premiered his features at the fest in The Oregonian (Sundance ’11) and The Rambler (Sundance ’13),...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #67. Keola Racela – Porno
Working in the short form and picking up Sundance film experiences by being an art dept. intern on David Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche and...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #66. Ritesh Batra – Photograph
Post The Lunchbox fame (his well traveled Film Fest favorite which was also shown at Sundance in 2014), Ritesh Batra hit a creative cluster mark with Our Souls...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #65. Michael Tyburski – Palimpsest
Based on the 2013 Sundance short that would win a Special Jury Award, Michael Tyburski's feature version of the Palimpsest has been receiving a...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #64. Jacob Estes – Only You
Jacob Estes could be making it a Sundance trifecta with Mean Creek (2004) and The Details (2011) being joined Only You - a horror, sci-fi, thriller that...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #63. Jessica Oreck – One Man Dies a Million Times (Docu)
Pretty much on a breakneck pace since she introduced us to Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo in 2009 (here is our interview), there has been...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #62. Several Filmmakers – Omniboat: A Fastboat Fantasia
The production companies behind of Madeline's Madeline (Bow + Arrow) and the Borscht Corporation put together a mystery project in what is now being...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #61. Jennifer Kent – The Nightingale
Sundance was a major launch pad for Jennifer Kent's The Babadook and it could be the lieu for the US premiere (nabbing one of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #60. Michael Cristofer – The Night Clerk
While we commonly associate Sundance with youngling breakout talents, young-at-heart Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, screenwriter (Bonfire of the Vanities) and actor (most recently Evil...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #59. Rashid Johnson – Native Son
Perhaps the most alluring offering on A24's slate for 2019 is the ode to 1930's Chicago and African American identity debut film from conceptual...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #58. My Zoe – Julie Delpy
Her seventh feature film since 2002's Looking for Jimmy, Julie Delpy went into production My Zoe back in May in Berlin and Moscow. Of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #57. Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre – Mustang
Having gone into production in November of 2017 and not having a festival berth in 2018 meant that the Sundance 2019 was part of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #56. Sia – Music
After blasting a whole bunch of originality in the texts found Brady Corbet's Vox Lux, I'm ready for a second helping of film-based creativity...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #55. Rick Alverson – The Mountain
There are a slew of festival preemed goodies in Her Smell, Birds of Passage, Donnybrook, High Life, Gloria Bell, Fistful of Dirt and even Errol...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #54. Alejandro Landes – Monos
Alejandro Landes flagged the Sundance folks early in his career, premiering his directorial debut in the docu Cocalero way back in 2007 prior to being...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #53. Asif Kapadia – Maradona
With a bit of Hand of God luck, football fans (some people call it soccer) would rejoice if Asif Kapadia made his third trip this...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #52. Matt Aselton – Lying and Stealing
You'd been forgiven if you've forgotten the name of Matt Aselton who, a decade earlier, made his directorial debut with Gigantic - a film...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #51. Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala’s The Lodge
They broke out big when Venice, TIFF and Sitges handed them invites for their 2014 horror film Goodnight Mommy (read review) and Veronika Franz and Severin...
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Ties That Bind: Koreeda Examines the Essence of Family from Unexpected Perspective
Anyone familiar with the cinema of Japanese auteur Hirokazu Koreeda already knows what...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #50. Julius Onah – Luce
Part of his "American Lives" output, production on Luce took place in November of 2017 and becomes Julius Onah's third feature following in the footsteps of the...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #49. Peter Sattler – Love & Oatmeal
Peter Sattler could very well be making a return trip to Sundance following up 2014's Camp X-Ray (we called it a remarkable screenwriting and...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #48. Casey Affleck – Light of My Life
Post Manchester by the Sea, in February of 2017, Casey Affleck began filming Light of My Life in British Columbia’s Okanagan valley. Significantly slowing...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #47. Robert Eggers – The Light House
Robert Pattinson recently admitted that filming on The Light House was "the closest I’ve come to punching a director". Not exactly Kinski-Herzog in nature, but we...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #46. Joe Talbot – Last Black Man in San Francisco
Perhaps making the leap from former short filmmaker alumni (2017's American Paradise) to debuting his directorial debut, Sundance are not the only ones to...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #45. Jennifer Reeder – Knives and Skin
An artist and film fest circuit habitual, filmmaker Jennifer Reeder's looks to be moving out of the short film sphere (the Sundance selected 2014 short A...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #44. Dan Krauss – The Kill Team
Who better to adapt non-fic to fiction than .... the filmmaker himself. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Tribeca...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #43. Maya Newell – Kids (Docu)
Not a remake of the seminal Larry Clark film but rather a project about First Nations and the generations of children stuck on the...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #42. Mirrah Foulkes – Judy and Punch
For those who want to get into the Anomalisa mindset, you might want to look out for this number from down under. Actress (Sundance...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #41. Taika Waititi – Jojo Rabbit
A longstanding friend of the festival (I think I've walked by him three dozen times at the HQ in Park City), Taika Waititi might...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #40. Liza Mandelup – Jawline (Docu)
Featured as one of Filmmaker Mag's 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2017, it's the close proximity with her subjects (perhaps in the same...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #39. Jonathan Helpert – IO
2018 came and will have went and IO will not have dropped. Perhaps there is a lot more after effect works demanded for this...
