Tag: U.S. Indie Film
Third Responder: Katherine Waterston Added to Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s “Black Flies”
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire's Black Flies (a project that has been kicking around for a while now) has officially went into production this week in NYC...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bryan Wizemann’s You Mean Everything to Me
Persistence pays off. Bryan Wizemann has been painstakingly hacking away at indie film since 1998's Sense following that with 2005's Losing Ground, 2011's About...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come
She premiered her feature debut The Sleepwalker at Sundance back in 2014, and has been busy as a co-scribe working on all three of...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.’s Wild Indian
His short film Shinaab was featured at the 2017 edition of Sundance (he also received some TLC from TIFF not once, but twice) and...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Josh Ruben’s Werewolfs Within
Could filmmaker slash actor Josh Ruben become part of a rare and select club of filmmakers who make it in back to back years...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sebastian Pardo & Riel Roch-Decter’s Untitled A.I & Art Project
After a decade of backing projects such as Ma, Rat Film, Fraud, Automatic at Sea and more recently Crestone, producers Sebastian Pardo and Riel...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Owen Kline’s Two Against Nature
We'll call Two Against Nature the Bermuda Triangle of all our Sundance guesses. An indie comedy that was backed by a talented bunch and...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jared Frieder’s Three Months
A micro indie project flying low on the radar actually had a tremendous upswing from the get-go when Jared Frieder saw his screenplay land...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman’s Things Heard and Seen
Another Netflix project on our list sorta filmed under the radar back in November of 2019. Back in their heyday, Robert Pulcini & Shari...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Patrick Brice’s There’s Someone Inside Your House
We're beginning to think that filmmaker Patrick Brice is such a fixture in Park City that he deserves a back alley named in his...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Erin Vassilopoulos’ Superior
Recently featured as a work in progress at the US in Progress during the American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, NYC based Erin Vassilopoulos'...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Theodore Melfi’s The Starling
Production on Theodore Melfi's fourth feature film begin in August of 2019 and he appears to be moving towards more dramatic terrain this time...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Carson Mell’s Some Of Our Stallions
Carson Mell was a legit Sundance discovery and perhaps we can call him an actual triple threat as he premiered his first three shorts...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Simon Barrett’s Seance
A writer on horror items such as Horrible Way to Die (201), You're Next (2011), three segments in the V/H/S projects and another Adam...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Charlie Stratton’s Seacole
With some television work and one feature under his belt In Secret (TIFF '13), Charlie Stratton began lensing Seacole back in March of 2019...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lila Neugebauer’s Red, White, And Water
The levee might break in 2021 with A24's glut of film product waiting for a world premiere release and this directorial debut might lead...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Sarnoski’s Pig
In early 2020, Neon purchased the rights to Gunda (the docu film) and Pig which had completed production in late December of 2019. Shot...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jerrod Carmichael’s On the Count of Three
After directing some television items in 2018-19, comedian, actor and obvious star of the The Carmichael Show, Jerrod Carmichael officially decided to move into...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chase Palmer’s Naked Singularity
We were anticipating a showing of Naked Singularity at last year's edition of Sundance and of course it didn't land anywhere else this year...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sia’s Music
A project that took its sweet time to arrive will finally be unveiled next February and could technically nab a Sundance slot as a...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Amy Poehler’s Moxie
Moving into the direction of filmmaking with a trio of directed episodes for Parks and Recreation, 2016's TV Movie Dumb Prince, and her first...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ana Lily Amirpour’s Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon
A Sundance Film Festival darling back in 2014 for the Iranian vampire spaghetti western A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (read review), she would...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Karen Cinorre’s Mayday
Getting to go creatively madcap with art/set decor on the Isabella Rossellini starring Green Porno series, New Yorker Karen Cinorre made the jump to...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dean Fleischer-Camp’s Marcel the Shell
A stop-motion animated short film that took on a life of its own and snowballed into all sorts of creative items after Marcel the...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ian Samuels’ The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
Rising starlet Kathryn Newton (who we just saw in Freaky - read review) toplines this sophomore feature -- an Amazon Studios backed fantasy project...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sam Levinson’s Malcolm & Marie
With the switch in Academy Award dates for 2021, many were suggesting that February was the "new" December and that a fest like Sundance...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Will Sharpe’s Louis Wain
A relatively new talent both in front and behind the camera, Will Sharpe starred in Netflix drama Giri/Haji, directed quirky British comedy Flowers, is...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Clara Roquet’s Libertad
We advanced the idea same time last year mentioning that this directorial debut checks off a lot of boxes in terms of the type...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Edoardo Vitaletti’s The Last Thing Mary Saw
A directorial debut from a talent who is a complete unknown to us, New York based Italian filmmaker Edoardo Vitaletti enlisted the likes of...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Augustine Frizzell’s The Last Letter From Your Lover
Filmmaker/actress Augustine Frizzell's sophomore feature could have perhaps preemed in 2020, but it looks like 2021 was perhaps a better bet. A Netflix project...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robin Wright’s Land
After getting the directing bug on the House of Cards for just under a dozen episodes, Robin Wright moved into the director's chair for...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marco Perego Saldana’s Keyhole Garden
If we had to look at all the line-ups of the fest for the past two decades we'd find at least one "border" drama...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christopher Makoto Yogi’s I Was a Simple Man
His debut feature August at Akiko’s premiered at the 2018 Intl. Rotterdam Film Festival and he quickly followed this up by with his sophomore...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Adam Leon’s Italian Studies
When 2021 kicks off, Vanessa Kirby will be in Poland working on Brady Corbet's The Brutalist while in the streaming world (and whatever arthouses...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Stephen Karam’s The Humans
Production on Stephen Karam's move into film directing via his own one-act play of the same name, the A24 folks got behind the project...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Barry Levinson’s Harry Haft
Despite the Covid, I'm surprised that this biopic directed by the always busy veteran helmer Barry Levinson didn't shore up at some fest in...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anthony Lucero’s Halo of Stars
Perhaps taking a cue from Executive Producer Terrence Malick in terms of amount of time spent in post, Anthony Lucero's directorial debut Halo of...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Lowery’s The Green Knight
Due to have been released just after it's launch at the SXSW film festival, A24 haven't been fleeing their fate with The Green Knight...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Julian Higgins’ God’s Country
Los Angeles based filmmaker Julian Higgins (a past Student Academy Award winner) began tinkering around with the long form of his current project with...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jude Weng’s Finding Ohana
This year's Wendy might be a film from another far off destination in Hawaii. Jude Weng's directorial debut Finding Ohana is a film about...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Lee’s False Positive
Another A24 horror title project waiting to burst into the public space director John Lee and Ilana Glazer combined forces for False Positive -...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Showalter’s The Eyes of Tammy Faye
A Fox Searchlight project that has been fermenting for some time now and that got a firm greenlight October 2019 in Charlotte, North Carolina...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All at Once
We'll likely be thanking the tandem known as the Daniels for passing on Deadpool 2 as instead the put their super powers to work...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Vaughn Stein’s Every Breath You Take
Meant to be a Christine Jeffs (Sunshine Cleaning) project that saw helmer Vaughn Stein take on the reigns early on, this acquisitions friendly item...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nicholas Jarecki’s Dreamland
Taking just a tad bit more time in post-production and lining up for what would be some Gary Oldman Mank buzz, the acquisitions friendly...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dash Shaw’s Cryptozoo
Here's hoping that Jason Schwartzman is among the so far announced voice cast for what shall be another psychedelic mushroomy offering by the uber...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nadine Crocker’s Continue
A project that comes from a deep, personal place, for her directorial debut, actress Nadine Crocker turned the lens inwards for Continue and surrounded...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Catch The Fair One
After stints in television on with Narcos and The Terror, Josef Kubota Wladyka returns to feature film with the indie thriller Catch The Fair...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Peter Sattler’s Broken Diamonds
Haven't the faintest why Peter Sattler's sophomore feature Broken Diamonds (formerly Love & Oatmeal) has been held off the scorecard as production was complete...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Eddie Huang’s Boogie
Would have been cool to see Eddie Huang participate at both Sundance and... Chefdance on Main Street with a directorial debut that promises a...
