Tag: 2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions
2015 Sundance Predictions: Which Film is the Next Whiplash?
Despite the lottery-esque sounding odds, the U.S Dramatic Competition section which produces the finest American indie specimens such as Frozen River, Winter's Bone, Blue Valentine, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Beasts...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions List: An Introduction
Whether you are a filmmaker, or one of the Sundance programmers whose task it is to identify the films that make up a line-up,...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig Zobel’s Z for Zachariah
We can still feel the heat generated from Craig Zobel's Compliance. His sophomore film, which was made on a dime (his directorial debut Great World...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robinson Devor’s You Can’t Win
Films gods be damned. After guesstimating its eventual arrival on the film fest circuit and tracking it since it first went into production back...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robert Eggers’ The Witch
Robert Eggers appears to be soaked in horror, noir fairy-tale lore. His Filmmaker Magazine 25 New Faces profile over at Filmmaker Mag informs us that...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young
It landed at the Toronto Int. Film Festival and already had a NYFF playdate in place before A24 films plunked down 4 million on...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robert Edwards’ When I Live My Life Over Again
Despite one feature film under his belt with 2006's Land of the Blind (the Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland starrer won the Nicholl Fellowship...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bill & Turner Ross’ Western
It might still be too early to mention the brothers in the same breath as Frederick Wiseman, but the Ross brothers' filmography to date...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Noah Baumbach’s Untitled Public School Project
Akin to Michel Gondry's low-budgeter We and I, the shot in 2013 campus comedy still doesn't have a name, doesn't have a release date,...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kirby Dick’s Untitled Campus Assaults Project
The list of Kirby Dick signed films that have made it into the festival date back to 1997s' Sick: The Life and Death of...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jamey Phillips’ Untitled Bill Cosby Documentary
It is in the nature of the non-fiction film that the narrative mutates, takes a different shape, form and perspective. Wearing their colors on their...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Davis Guggenheim’s Untitled Malala Yousafzai Project
Sundance like their share of star-studded world premiere screenings and I can't think of a bigger one than this Nobel Peace prize winner. Davis...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker’s Unlocking the Cage
A documentary film that will do more for the animal ethics, protection and liberation debate than Project Nim, The Cove and every other doc that...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kris Swanberg’s Unexpected
We usually expect the unexpected, but in this case, the Unexpected would totally be unexpected. With two previous features under her belt, Kris Swanberg...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands’ Uncertain
2014 was an epic post-production type of year for filmmaker-team Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands. The Sundance Institute got up close and personal with...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ido Fluk’s The Ticket
With a small body of work including his low-budgeted directorial debut (Never Too Late) which orbited around the Fribourg and Edinburgh Film Festivals and garnered some...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lyric R. Cabral & David Felix Sutcliffe’s (T)error
You'd be forgiven for thinking that this is a horror title. It is not. Well, actually it's horrifying terrain in the docu scheme of...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini’s Ten Thousand Saints
Who can forget 2003 when filmmaker-duo Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini landed at Sundance with a highly inventive biopic, a seminal film really...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sean Baker’s Tangerine
The scrooge in me doesn't care much for Xmas themed films. But worry not, this Christmas without snow will surely bring out the yuletide...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matt Sobel’s Take Me to the River
Safe to say that 2015 should be the roll out year for this directorial debut. Some got an early peak at this summer's Rooftop...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Yance Ford’s Strong Island
There is nothing new in the subject matters covered in Yance Ford's debut. Gun violence. Authorities taking a blind eye approach. A family and...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew James’ Street Fighting Man
Symbolically speaking, I wouldn't be out of line if I compared Motor city as a sister city to Damascus. If you group docs in...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nikole Beckwith’s Stockholm, Pennsylvania
An actor, musician and a playwright who sort of came swanning into the driver's seat in 2012 stringing the prestigious Academy Nicholl Fellowships in...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chloe Zhao’s Songs My Brothers Taught Me
More time in post-production means more time for nips, tucks, another Sundance lab (2014's Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Sound) and even...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Leslye Headland’s Sleeping with Other People
It was an admirable modest hit prior to leaving Park City in 2012, but who knew that Leslye Headland's feature debut would turn into a...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Diane Bell’s Shiva and May
Working from a deeply original aperture, you couldn't ask for a better calling card with the iconoclastic look into the species. Diane Bell's debut...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Bujalski’s Results
Andrew Bujalski's Computer Chess turned out to be the feel good film of Sundance and that's not because the early gamers are particularly charming,...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Louie Psihoyos’ Racing Extinction
Formerly going by the title of "The Heist" and "6", Racing Extinction appears to be a more elaborate, all-encompassing unofficial sequel to Louie Psihoyos'...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Noah Pritzker’s The Quitters
Noah Pritzker first surfaced with his short Little Dad (SXSW '12), and in the summer of 2013 (see set pic), plugged away in the...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth
It has been a remarkable, four-star review type of year for Alex Ross Perry, and 2014 ain't over yet with the the Indie Spirits Awards...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robinson Devor’s Pow Wow
With 2007's off-kilter Zoo, Sundance Film Fest habitual Robinson Devor showed his true colors. His unrestricted creativity in storytelling means that his future slate includes mutations...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Hossein Keshavarz’s Pebble of Love in the Shoe of My Life
There's an alive indie American-Iranian cinema movement in the US, and if the Keshavarz name rings a bell it's because the indie film fest...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan
Following in the path of former Sundance premiered, Australian stamped films such as Animal Kingdom, Top of the Lake and last year's The Babadook,...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Patrick Brice’s The Overnight
2014 saw Patrick Brice officially plant his feet with Craigslist's ad from hell horror pic Creep (originally titled Peachfuzz) being picked up (by RADiUS)...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Droz Palermo’s One & Two
Well versed in the nooks and crannies of the Missourian backdrop, for obvious reasons, the Midwestern state rooted Andrew Droz Palermo knows a thing or two about...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sebastián Silva’s Nasty Baby
The Chilean filmmaker locked two premieres at Sundance back in '13 with Magic Magic and Crystal Fairy and later that fall, began lensing Nasty...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Reed Morano’s Meadowland
A staple of the Sundance Film Festival since Courtney Hunt's Frozen River in '08, her Park City premiered filmography as a cinematographer was followed by...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Max Landis’ Me Him Her
For someone who was ultra transparent during production, it's almost as if Max Landis has placed a self-imposed gag order or the more likely...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bobby Miller’s The Master Cleanse
After more than a decade of working in the short form (this includes the 2010 Sundance hit TUB - see below), Bobby Miller landed...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: J. Davis’ Manson Family Vacation
With only hope, a dream and one writing credit to his name (SXSW short film Kevin), J. Davis lassoed fellow low-budget filmmakers Linas Phillips...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ryan Gosling’s Lost River
Ryan Gosling moved into the director's chair in 2013. Though it was cheered at its reception, Lost River (formerly titled "How to Catch a...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tim Godsall’s Len and Company
Take a Cannes Lions-winning commercials director/first time filmmaker in Tim Godsall, throw in a 2008 Broadway play, and finally, add a mix of sturdy mix...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Felix Thompson’s King Jack
What I like about a fest such as Sundance, is that it's not only a place where we'll find semi-star vehicle material with players...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig Roberts’ Just Jim
Park City became a special lieu for actor Craig Roberts back in 2011 with the world premiere launch of Richard Ayoade's Submarine (see pic above). Over the...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Josh Mond’s James White
In their decade long journey of indie film craftsmanship, the creative producing-directing trio of Josh Mond (see picture above) Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin (otherwise known...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tara Subkoff’s #Horror
This past February, there was a brief trade mention that actress Tara Subkoff would be getting behind the camera for her directorial, feature film debut...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Fidel Ruiz-Healy & Tyler Walker’s Homefront
It's got a heavyweight studio sounding title (perhaps it has to do with Gary Fleder's 2013 number about folk getting stuck in the crosshairs),...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Krasinski’s The Hollars
About a half-dozen years have passed since John Krasinski broke out behind the camera with his 80-minuter raining men oddity. The adaptation of David Foster Wallace's...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Patrick Wang’s The Grief of Others
Hard to fathom that one of the most anticipated indie films for 2015 (and potential Sundance entry) is one that features a former soap...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jake Mahaffy’s Free in Deed
After Tim Sutton's portrait in 2014, this could this be a back-to-back Sundance editions with the idea of Memphis in the forefront. Taking perhaps the...
