Tag: 2013 Sundance Film Festival
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Hilary Brougher’s Innocence
Hilary Brougher made a splash at the fest with her sophomore Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award winning drama Stephanie Daley (Sundance '06) but it's been...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: George Tillman Jr.’s The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete
Certainly feels like the director and producer who has only delivered in mainstream items (Soul Food, Men of Honor, Beauty Shop, Notorious) is trying...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matthew Porterfield’s I Used to Be Darker
Putty Hill, his critically acclaimed Berlin and SXSW selected sophomore feature officially put Matthew Porterfield on the future of indie film map. He began...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Stuart Murdoch’s God Help the Girl
Among the most talked about film items on crowd-sourcer Kickstarter this year, Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch’s feature directorial is the type of...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale
Among Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of 2012, Ryan Coogler saw his feature debut fast-tracked beginning with this year's Sundance Institute January Screenwriters Lab...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Yung Chang’s The Fruit Hunters
Sticking with the whole erotica theme that I think will play out at the fest this year, you can't get more exotic with The...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Zal Batmanglij’s The East
Zal Batmanglij (see on set above) barely had time to unpack his bags after showing Sound of My Voice (11' Sundance) and he quickly...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joe Swanberg’s Drinking Buddies
This 2.5 films per year filmmaker was a SXSW favorite up until he was first included in the Sundance family with Uncle Kent (Sundance...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Richard Ayoade’s The Double
Premiering to rave reviews at the 2010 edition of Sundance, Richard Ayoade (pic above) moved from acclaimed Submarine to fielding what was probably tons...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Don Jon’s Addiction
Over the past decade he has been a mainstay at the fest - his burgeoning film career as an indie actor can be cited...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Atom Egoyan’s Devil’s Knot
Atom Egoyan has been invited to Sundance as a filmmaker Next of Kin (Sundance '87), Exotica (Sundance '95), producer, juror and the list goes...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Diego Luna’s Chavez
With a docu J.C. Chavez (2007), a short Revolución (2010) and his feature film under his belt - Abel (Sundance '10), full fledged actor-filmmaker-producer...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Randall Miller’s CBGB
With previous splashes at the fest consisting of award-winning Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (Sundance '05) and Bottle Shock (Sundance '08), I...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Paul Schrader’s The Canyons
If my predictions come out right, this year's Sundance will be heavy on the porn thematic. Couple of Sundance editions back Soderbergh pulled out...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Carney’s Can A Song Save Your Life?
His 2006 true-life fairytale swooned Sundance audiences picking up the Audience Award World Cinema - Dramatic Competition and then Best Song at the Oscars....
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alexandre Moors’ Blue Caprice
If Sundance's principle mission is to showcase future filmmaking talent, then they'll probably want to stamp their film fest laurels on this French born,...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lance Edmands’ Bluebird
Not Robert Redford or any Sundance programmer for that matter would admit to it, but their are certain characteristics that make for the quintessential...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Posamentier and Geoff Moore’s Better Living Through Chemistry
Another pair of first-time directors working from a Blacklist screenplay (number 13 on the 2010) and with a parka friendly clan of four frequent...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight
He outfitted the festival with his debut film Slacker ('91 Sundance), and a pair of films nearly a decade later (Waking Life and Tape)...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Max Mayer’s As Cool As I Am
Winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for his sophomore feature Adam (Sundance '09), Max Mayer's As Cool As I Am appears to be...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tony Pemberton’s Are We Not Men?
One more example of a successful Kickstarter campaign, Tony Pemberton's Are We Not Men? - the authorized docu on DEVO has been in the...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
He premiered his much talked about award-winning short film Pioneer at Sundance and SXSW in 2011, but film (all aspects of it) has been...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Scott Coffey’s Adult World
The drought between his debut and sophomore will come to an end in 2013. A full eight years since Ellie Parker (Sundance '05), which...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Stu Zicherman’s A.C.O.D.
A comedy that was a 2008 Blacklist script favorite, Stu Zicherman and Ben Karlin's A.C.O.D: Adult Children of Divorce finally began filming in March of...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David M. Rosenthal’s A Single Shot
Gone are the days of a mangled production history - A Single Shot must have started and stopped a couple of times, switched casts...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Roman Coppola’s A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
With a knack for nabbing huge U.S. titles during his tenure at the Venice Film Fest, Marco Muller's taste hasn't changed much and under...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rob Meyer’s A Birder’s Guide to Everything
Rob Meyer's A Birder's Guide to Everything is another example of how Sundance champions filmmakers who use the premise, structure, formula of their short...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Saodat Ismailova’s 40 Days of Silence
Uzbekistan isn't the first nation that comes to mind when we think of a fest that is chock-full in American Independent film offerings, but...
