Tag: U.S. Indie Film News
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: 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:...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Khalik Allah’s Black Mother
Packing a fervent wallop only with his still photography (check out his just published hard cover Souls Against the Concrete) we were initially introduced Khalik Allah via the Filmmaker...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joshua Leonard’s Behold My Heart
If Joshua Leonard's third film gets inserted in the '18 edition, it'll be the project that had the luxury of having the longest post...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Felix van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy
We know him for his Directors' Fortnight preemed The Misfortunates (2009) (and the publicity stunt on the Croisette as well), and international audiences discovered...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jesper Ganslandt’s Beast Of Burden
For those who simply can't get enough of, or bypassed what a Cessna misadventure might look like with covert operations and covert opportunities seen...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation
It's been a long seven years between features for Sam Levinson. Having started his film career with one of the best films from 2011...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gareth Evans’ Apostle
A bromance between the festival and this Welsh started back when The Raid: Redemption received it U.S. premiere during the 2012 edition. Sundance has...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jim Hosking’s An Evening with Beverly Luff
Heavy on the gag....reflex, Jim Hosking's feature break out debut (a 2016 Sundance Park City at Midnight selection) was what could categorically be called...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Eva Vives’ All About Nina
Every year there are the last minute additions getting in under the wire, this might be the case for Eva Vives' directorial debut. Receiving...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sarah Daggar-Nickson’s A Vigilante
Unless it's within the horror genre, revenge type films signed by female filmmakers are few and far between. For every Kill Bill, there are...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kenny Riches’ A Name Without a Place
It's not just the Borscht folks who are reinvigorating the American independent scene in the Sunshine State, or more specifically, Miami. Cut to Kenny...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Silas Howard’s A Kid Like Jake
A busy bee as of late directing notable television gigs such as Hudson Valley Ballers and Transparent, Silas Howard premiered his debut film at...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Yen Tan’s 1985
The aesthetic foot print of this Malaysian born, Austin-based helmer can be visually catalogued year in and year out on film fest circuit. Part...
The Conversation: Top 10 American Indie Filmmakers Missing in Action (Class of ’17)
Following up our last week’s offering of ten international directors who have been missing in action for the past five years or more, we...
All About Eva: Mary Elizabeth Winstead & Common Stand Up for Vives’ “All About Nina”
The story writer from one of the seminal American indie films of the naughts (Raising Victor Vargas) has, as confirmed last week, completed photography...
Hungry like the Wolf: Naomi Watts Toplines Alistair Banks Griffin’s Psychological Thriller
Alistair Banks Griffin is currently in pre-production and finally gearing up for his long-awaited sophomore feature with Naomi Watts confirmed as the lead in...
Street Team: Crystal Moselle in Simpatico with The Skate Kitchen
No stranger to profiling NYC based artists and misfits running, subwaying (and in this case, skating) around Manhattan and its boroughs, Deadline confirms that...
Harlem Shuffled: Barry Jenkins isn’t Blind to “If Beale Street Could Talk”
Arguably 2016 was Barry Jenkins' big coming out party and curiously sharing a place together along with Moonlight on several top ten lists was...
Sophomore Slump No More: Sundance Institute’s FilmTwo Give Helping Hand to Lucky 13 (Carpignano, Banks Griffin, Heller, Holmer, Moselle et Al.)
American indie helmers who were in Park City this past January with their debut films in Andrew Ahn (Spa Night), Bernardo Britto (Jacqueline (Argentine)), Steven...
Sebastian Silva Sets Sail on “Captain Dad” with Will Ferrell, Catherine Keener & Michael Cera
Moving from quirky micro dark comedies to bigger budgeted quirky dark comedies, Variety reports that Sebastian Silva will begin 7th feature film on a...
Honesty the Best Policy: The Orchard Moves in with “Rainbow Time”
Get them to sign on the line that is dotted, and then get them to sign again. After inking a seven pic deal, the Duplass...
Cruel Intentions: Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy & Anton Yelchin Buck Towards “Thoroughbred”
Just last week, The Tracking Board broke the news that scribes Nat Faxon and Jim Rash were getting into the producing game essentially aiding playwright-screenwriter...
The Curious Case of…: Kieran Culkin, Offerman & Mullally Topline Byington’s “Infinity Baby”
7 Chinese Brothers and Somebody Up There Likes Me helmer Bob Byington is testing the old cliché of enjoying them when you can because...
In the Bedroom: The Orchard Grab “Donald Cried” by the Mullet
Famously coined in Magnolia and perhaps applicable here...we may be through with the past... but the past is not through with us. Deadline reports that...
Homeland Insecurity: Jennifer Morrison Joins Directing Boot Camp with “Sun Dogs”
Actress Jennifer Morrison is moving behind the camera for her directorial debut, and by the same token is launching her production co. Written by Anthony...
Toll Booth: Rosenberg’s “Approaching The Unknown” Finds Docking Station at Paramount & Vertical Ent.
A project we've been tracking for the better part of half a decade when it was known as "Ad Inexplorata" and was part of...
Money for Nothing: A24 Channel James Ponsoldt for “I Want My MTV”
Originally set up at Sony with Brett Ratner possibly eyeing it as a directing gig, the A24 folks picked up the rights in turnaround...
Maximum Sentence: McCaul Lombardi & Crew Get Paroled for Porterfield’s “Soller’s Point”
McCaul Lombardi (who'll be on the Croisette in the featured Andrea Arnold's American Honey quartet comprised of Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf and Arielle Holmes)...
Kilo Kids: FilmRise Bail out Elizabeth Wood’s “White Girl”
In a post Sundance, pre-spring pickup, FilmRise's Danny Fisher has landed a hot summer title that didn't go unnoticed when it was launched back...
Fix For a King: Helmer Finds Addicts in Michael Trotter, Nixon, Geraghty & Ireland For “The Evening Hour”
After off-roading it in desolate Armenia with Here (U.S. Dramatic Competition - Sundance Film Festival) helmer Braden King will be roughing it out in the white trashy...
Columbia Records: Jason Mitchell & Ellar Coltrane Enrol in Vikram Gandhis’ “Barry”
Joining the already cast Devon Terrell and Anya Taylor-Joy, Variety reports that Jason Mitchell and Ellar Coltrane have been added as the supporting players...
Tie Me Up, Eye Me Down: Magnet Releasing Ankles Nicolas Pesce’s “The Eyes of My Mother”
Magnolia was mostly sticking to docu items, but Variety reports that Magnet Releasing have landed worldwide distribution rights to The Eyes of My Mother - Nicolas Pesce's break-out directorial...
School of Hard Knocks: Felix Thompson’s “King Jack” Bullied By Well Go USA
Less than a day after winning the Independent Spirit Awards' “Someone to Watch” to watch award beating out Chloé Zhao's Sundance preemed Songs My Brothers...
North Dakota Gold: Boyd Holbrook & Rachel Brosnahan Strike it Rich in Sabyn Mayfield’s “Boomtown”
Before the North Dakota oil boom (as witnessed in Jesse Moss' The Overnighters), a good century back, there was the another type of boom. Commonly...
Alexandre Moors Has Huston, Aniston, Sheridan & Ehrenreich Reporting for Duty in “The Yellow Birds”
His cold, steely biopic Blue Caprice might have not received the same fanfare as Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, but both were nonetheless stellar offerings at...
Exclusive: Poster Premiere for Claire Carré’s “Embers”
We've been tracking the development of Claire Carré's directorial debut since it successfully launched its Kickstarter campaign in late 2013 (it was subsequently selected as...
Haigh, Barthes & Terence Nance Among IFP Independent Film Week Participants
The premiere post-TIFF destination (September 20-25th) in the film community and a major leg up for narrative and non-fiction films in development, the Independent Filmmaker...
I Follow River: Film Movement Submerges Matt Sobel’s “Take Me to the River”
While noteworthy Sundance NEXT section titles Entertainment, James White, Nasty Baby and Tangerine all found distrib homes, we're finally seeing Matt Sobel's break-out debut...
James Morrison’s “Diverge” Wins Top Award at the Paris U.S. in Progress Edition
One of the half dozen invited projects to the Paris edition of the U.S. in Progress (Champs Elysees Film Festival) it is James Morrison’s...
Stranger Than Science-Fiction: Steven Shainberg Senses the “Rupture”
Before 50 Shades of Grey was made fashionable by mainstream auds, Secretary was a sizzler cubicle space title that made Steven Shainberg a sought after indie...
Last Exit to Brooklyn: Fort Tilden Hitches a Ride with Orion Releasing
Emblematic of the protracted journey that its clueless protagonists embark on, almost 365 days since it premiered, Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers' SXSW Grand...
Greed is Good: Broad Street Pictures Makes “Equity” Stake in Meera Menon
Under their newly minted Broad Street Pictures label, Sarah Megan Thomas and Alysia Reiner will both star in and produce Equity, the sophomore feature from up-and-comer...
