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2016 Sundance Film Fest Video: Kerem Sanga’s First Girl I Loved

Among the NEXT section titles that landed at this year’s Sundance Film Fest, the micro-budgeted NEXT Audience Award winning puppy love in the crosshairs third feature film from helmer Kerem Sanga ultimately choose the DIY route in terms of distribution. Released last week theatrically and via VOD (itunes), here is a video throwback to First Girl I Loved‘s second premiere post Q&A screening with the cast and crew video.

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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