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Bird In Hand

Director Melody C Roscher's debut feature, Bird In Hand, follows bi-racial bride-to-be Bird Rowe (Alisha Wainwright), who arrives unannounced on her mother Carlotta (Christine Lahti) and step-father Dale's (Jeffrey Nordling) doorstep to break the news about the upcoming nuptials. However, Bird has an ulterior motive for visiting her childhood home — she wants to finally meet her Black father (K Todd Freeman). As tensions between mother and daughter escalate and the wedding plans grind along slowly, Bird agrees to help white couple Dennis (James Le Gros) and Leigh (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), who have bought a plantation property and plan to cleanse it of its ominous past.

Roscher has previously directed the short films Vessel and White Wedding, the latter of which Bird In Hand is based on. She has also produced Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene, Josh Mond's James White, and Antonio Campos' Simon Killer and Christine.

Bird In Hand

Director Melody C Roscher's debut feature, Bird In Hand, follows bi-racial bride-to-be Bird Rowe (Alisha Wainwright), who arrives unannounced on her mother Carlotta (Christine Lahti) and step-father Dale's (Jeffrey Nordling) doorstep to break the news about the upcoming nuptials. However, Bird has an ulterior motive for visiting her childhood home — she wants to finally meet her Black father (K Todd Freeman). As tensions between mother and daughter escalate and the wedding plans grind along slowly, Bird agrees to help white couple Dennis (James Le Gros) and Leigh (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), who have bought a plantation property and plan to cleanse it of its ominous past.

Roscher has previously directed the short films Vessel and White Wedding, the latter of which Bird In Hand is based on. She has also produced Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene, Josh Mond's James White, and Antonio Campos' Simon Killer and Christine.

Bird In Hand

Director Melody C Roscher's debut feature, Bird In Hand, follows bi-racial bride-to-be Bird Rowe (Alisha Wainwright), who arrives unannounced on her mother Carlotta (Christine Lahti) and step-father Dale's (Jeffrey Nordling) doorstep to break the news about the upcoming nuptials. However, Bird has an ulterior motive for visiting her childhood home — she wants to finally meet her Black father (K Todd Freeman). As tensions between mother and daughter escalate and the wedding plans grind along slowly, Bird agrees to help white couple Dennis (James Le Gros) and Leigh (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), who have bought a plantation property and plan to cleanse it of its ominous past.

Roscher has previously directed the short films Vessel and White Wedding, the latter of which Bird In Hand is based on. She has also produced Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene, Josh Mond's James White, and Antonio Campos' Simon Killer and Christine.

Bird In Hand

Director Melody C Roscher's debut feature, Bird In Hand, follows bi-racial bride-to-be Bird Rowe (Alisha Wainwright), who arrives unannounced on her mother Carlotta (Christine Lahti) and step-father Dale's (Jeffrey Nordling) doorstep to break the news about the upcoming nuptials. However, Bird has an ulterior motive for visiting her childhood home — she wants to finally meet her Black father (K Todd Freeman). As tensions between mother and daughter escalate and the wedding plans grind along slowly, Bird agrees to help white couple Dennis (James Le Gros) and Leigh (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), who have bought a plantation property and plan to cleanse it of its ominous past.

Roscher has previously directed the short films Vessel and White Wedding, the latter of which Bird In Hand is based on. She has also produced Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene, Josh Mond's James White, and Antonio Campos' Simon Killer and Christine.

Bird In Hand

Director Melody C Roscher's debut feature, Bird In Hand, follows bi-racial bride-to-be Bird Rowe (Alisha Wainwright), who arrives unannounced on her mother Carlotta (Christine Lahti) and step-father Dale's (Jeffrey Nordling) doorstep to break the news about the upcoming nuptials. However, Bird has an ulterior motive for visiting her childhood home — she wants to finally meet her Black father (K Todd Freeman). As tensions between mother and daughter escalate and the wedding plans grind along slowly, Bird agrees to help white couple Dennis (James Le Gros) and Leigh (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), who have bought a plantation property and plan to cleanse it of its ominous past.

Roscher has previously directed the short films Vessel and White Wedding, the latter of which Bird In Hand is based on. She has also produced Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene, Josh Mond's James White, and Antonio Campos' Simon Killer and Christine.

Bird In Hand

Director Melody C Roscher's debut feature, Bird In Hand, follows bi-racial bride-to-be Bird Rowe (Alisha Wainwright), who arrives unannounced on her mother Carlotta (Christine Lahti) and step-father Dale's (Jeffrey Nordling) doorstep to break the news about the upcoming nuptials. However, Bird has an ulterior motive for visiting her childhood home — she wants to finally meet her Black father (K Todd Freeman). As tensions between mother and daughter escalate and the wedding plans grind along slowly, Bird agrees to help white couple Dennis (James Le Gros) and Leigh (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), who have bought a plantation property and plan to cleanse it of its ominous past.

Roscher has previously directed the short films Vessel and White Wedding, the latter of which Bird In Hand is based on. She has also produced Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene, Josh Mond's James White, and Antonio Campos' Simon Killer and Christine.

Bird In Hand

Director Melody C Roscher's debut feature, Bird In Hand, follows bi-racial bride-to-be Bird Rowe (Alisha Wainwright), who arrives unannounced on her mother Carlotta (Christine Lahti) and step-father Dale's (Jeffrey Nordling) doorstep to break the news about the upcoming nuptials. However, Bird has an ulterior motive for visiting her childhood home — she wants to finally meet her Black father (K Todd Freeman). As tensions between mother and daughter escalate and the wedding plans grind along slowly, Bird agrees to help white couple Dennis (James Le Gros) and Leigh (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), who have bought a plantation property and plan to cleanse it of its ominous past.

Roscher has previously directed the short films Vessel and White Wedding, the latter of which Bird In Hand is based on. She has also produced Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene, Josh Mond's James White, and Antonio Campos' Simon Killer and Christine.

The best festivals point to the future, capture the zeitgeist, or honor the past. At Locarno in 2015, you could have had all three: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Happy Hour (his first time premiering in a major competition), Chantal Akerman’s No Home Movie (the director in attendance just months before she died), and Hong Sangsoo’s Right Now, Wrong Then (a mid-career masterpiece), all played. So did Rick Alverson’s Entertainment, the final film of Andrzej Żuławski, and the directorial debut of Josh Mond, at the time best known for producing Martha Marcy May Marlene for Borderline, a company he established with Sean Durkin and Antonio Campos in 2003. Mond’s debut James White featured Cristopher Abbott’s first lead role and (one year before dazzling in A Quiet Passion for Terrence Davies) a Cynthia Nixon performance that made you sit up and take note. It won a prize in Locarno and another at Sundance.

These auteurs are ready for their close-up.

When Quentin Dupieux’s comedy about an ill-fated film set, “The Second Act,” opened the Cannes Film Festival May 14, it will be just one of several movies about filmmaking and filmmakers to touch down on the Croisette. After all, directors Christophe Honoré, Paul Schrader and Josh Mond are among the other prominent filmmakers who are ready to premiere semi-autobiographical stories.

Honoré’s in-competition comedy, “Marcello Mio,” casts Chiara Mastroianni as a version of herself who — after a director compares her to her late father, Marcello Mastroianni — dresses in drag and takes on his identity. Schrader’s in-competition drama, “Oh, Canada,” focuses on a documentary filmmaker (Richard Gere) telling his life story in a doc. Mond’s drama “It Doesn’t Matter” follows two friends chronicling their lives on video. Leos Carax’s 40-minute “C’est pas moi” is partly a self-portrait, with footage from his films and life.

Sean Baker is officially returning to Cannes with his new rom-com “Anora.”

While the plot details remain under wraps, the feature is billed as an adventure rom-com, with the first look image showing a neon-lit club scene. Baker writes and directs the feature, which will debut at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

The cast includes Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov, Karen Karagulian, and Vache Tovmasyan. Drew Daniels served as director of photography and shot the feature on 35mm film. The feature was filmed in Brooklyn and will be released by Neon later this year.

“Making an independent film is never easy no matter how many you have under your belt!” Baker said in a 2023 press statement (via Variety). “I feel so fortunate to have been given the resources and support to fulfill my vision in an uncompromised way. Thank you to my collaborators including Glen Basner and the FilmNation team,...

With the likes of Maciek Hamela’s documentary In the Rearview and Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated film Chicken for Linda!, 2023 turned out to be an epic edition for the Acid (Association for the Distribution of Independent Cinema) section. Both of those films rocked the Croisette and landed international accolades with their fest runs. so with a more watchful eye on yesterday’s announcement. A firm line-up of nine feature films includes the surprise sophomore item by James White filmmaker Josh Mond — his It Doesn’t Matter stars Christopher Abbott and Jay Will in a drama revolving around the redemptive relationship between a lost man from Staten Island and a young filmmaker.…...

Christopher Abbott is returning to his indie roots and reuniting with his 2015 filmmaking collaborator Josh Mond for upcoming feature “It Doesn’t Matter.”

Abbott, who recently appeared in “Poor Things” and is set to lead Universal’s “Wolfman,” stars opposite Jay Will in the dramedy revolving around the redemptive relationship between a lost man from Staten Island and a young filmmaker.

“It Doesn’t Matter” premieres at the Acid programming section, run by France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (Acid) and takes place parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. “It Doesn’t Matter” is writer/director Mond’s first movie since his breakout Sundance 2015 directorial debut “James White,” which also starred Abbott.

In addition to directing, Mond previously produced Sean Durkin’s “Martha Marcy May Marlene” and Antonio Campos’ “Simon Killer.” “It Doesn’t Matter” is his sophomore film.

Mond teased “It Doesn’t Matter” to IndieWire in 2015, saying that while the...

Following the main lineups for the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, a handful of sidebar slates have been unveiled, featuring Directors Fortnight, Critics Week, and Acid. Notable highlights include the Sundance favorite Good One (read our review here), Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point starring Michael Cera, the first film in over a decade from James White director Josh Mond, the Christopher Abbott-led It Doesn’t Matter, Eat the Night from Jessica Forever duo Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, Carson Lund’s Eephus, Patricia Mazuy’s Visting Hours, The Hyperboreans, a new film from The Wolf House directors Cristobal Leo & Joaquin Cocina, Matthew Rankin’s The Twentieth Century follow-up Universal Language, and more.

Check out the lineups below.

Cannes Directors Fortnight

Feature films:

“Ma Vie Ma Gueule,” Sophie Fillieres (France) – opening film

“A Son Image,” Thierry de Peretti (France)

“Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point,” Tyler Taormina (USA)

“Desert of Namibia,...

France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (Acid) has unveiled the nine features it will showcase in its parallel Cannes section, running May 15-24. Acid focuses on films without French distributors and first features.

Comprising three documentaries and six fiction features, all the titles are world premieres.

The line-up includes Josh Mond’s It Doesn’t Matter starring Christopher Abbott and Jay Will. The US-French co-production follows the fortuitous relationship between an American man and a young filmmaker over the course of seven years. Mond’s debut feature James White premiered at Sundance in 2015 while his producing credits include Martha Marcy May Marlene.

Cannes parallel section Acid, run by France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (Acid), has unveiled its 2024 line-up. (scroll down for full list)

This year’s selection world premieres nine features, three of which are documentaries.

They include It Doesn’t Matter, the second feature by U.S. producer and director Josh Mond, who made waves with his first movie James White at Sundance in 2015, and has since focused mainly on producing.

Christopher Abbott and Jay Will star in the drama revolving around the redemptive relationship between a lost man from Staten Island and a young filmmaker.

Launched in 1992, Acid previously showcased the early features of the likes of Oscar winner Justine Triet and Oscar-nominated director Kaouther Ben Hania as well as award winning filmmakers Radu Jude, Guy Maddin and Robert Guediguian.

Cannes 2023 Palme d’Or winner Triet’s first feature Age of Panic (La Bataille de Solférino...

Sean Durkin’s “The Iron Claw” is less Christmas crowdpleaser than family downer, but this skillfully directed portrait of the tragic rise, fall, and resurrection of the Von Erich wrestling family dynasty should be a holiday hit for A24. Its stacked cast includes a Hollywood favorite with a beloved risen-from-the-ashes story of his own (Zac Efron), at least one super hot name right now (Jeremy Allen White), and a fast-rising indie darling on his way to becoming a household name (Harris Dickinson).

They, along with newcomer Stanley Simons, play the quartet of Von Erich brothers beset by misfortune and heroic episodes of prevailing throughout their 1980s wrestling careers, under the controlling clutch of their father’s (Holt McCallany) merciless management style and cruel kind of love. Maura Tierney, meanwhile, plays their mother as a woman numbed by grief amid the successive self-inflicted deaths of her children. To this day, Kevin Von Erich...

Exclusive: Max Casella (The Tender Bar), Domenick Lombardozzi (The Irishman), Vincent Piazza (Boardwalk Empire), and newcomer Jay Will (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) have been cast opposite lead Sylvester Stallone in Tulsa King (working title), Paramount+’s new series created by Yellowstone‘s Taylor Sheridan, with The Sopranos alum Terence Winter at the helm as executive producer, writer and showrunner.

Produced by MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios, Tulsa King follows New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi (Stallone), who, as he’s released from prison after 25 years, is unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Ok. Realizing that his mob family might not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a “crew” from a group of unlikely characters to help him establish a new criminal empire in a place that to him might as well be another planet.

2022 Paramount+ Pilots & Series Orders

Casella will play Armand Truisi,...

Long before she was Marvel fixture Wanda Maximoff, Elizabeth Olsen was a 20-year-old actor starting out as Martha, a damaged woman struggling to reassimilate back into normal life after escaping an abusive cult in “Martha Marcy May Marlene.” At the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, the indie thriller launched Olsen’s career, as well as filmmaker Sean Durkin’s, when it won the U.S. Dramatic Prize for Directing and scored a posh distribution deal from then-Fox Searchlight Pictures.

“Martha Marcy May Marlene” made back more than enough of its $600,000 budget after the Fox Searchlight acquisition, grossing $5.4 million during a fall 2011 run, while also garnering Olsen a number of film critics’ awards and nominations, and the film four Film Independent Spirit Award nominations. But it’s fascinating to look back at the sort of launchpad the movie proved to be, as it re-emerges in retrospect a veritable who’s-who of indie film,...

The Gotham Awards for the best in independent film kicked off this unusual awards season on Monday night, January 11. Presented by the Independent Filmmaker Project, these kudos are usually handed out in early December but were pushed back (as were many awards events) due to the Covid-19 pandemic. So who won? Scroll down for the complete list of winners, updated live as they were announced.

SEEGotham nominee John Magaro (‘First Cow’) on how Cookie and King-Lu are ‘almost soulmates’ [Exclusive Video Interview]

These awards are limited to American films (apart from Best International Feature ) made with an economy of means, which means no budgets higher than $35 million. Nominees and winners were decided by juries of film experts and insiders. And for the first time in the awards’ history, all five of the nominees for Best Feature were directed by women: “The Assistant” by Kitty Green, “First Cow” by Kelly Reichardt, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” by Eliza Hittman,...

The Nest

Eight years after the success of his 2011 debut Martha Marcy May Marlene, Sean Durkin resurfaces with sophomore feature The Nest, a Canadian-u.K. production, rather than the Janis Joplin biopic he’s been developing for most of the decade. Produced by Ed Guiney, Derrin Schlesinger, Rose Garnett, Amy Jackson and Christina Piovesan, the film stars Jude Law, Carrie Coon and Anne Reid. U.K. Cinematographer Mátyás Erdély and film editor Matthew Hannam who teamed with Josh Mond on James White, return to the Borderline Films original crew here. Durkin won the Directing Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, which he followed with the 2013 British television mini-series “Southcliffe.”…...

Since her memorable breakout role in “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” rocked Sundance in 2015, British actress Olivia Cooke has filled her resume with a bevy of highbrow and intriguing projects. In 2017, she returned to Sundance in Cry Finley’s “Thoroughbreds,” where she was electric as a troubled Connecticut rich girl with an axe to grind. She also landed a plum role in Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One,” and thrilled critics with her portrayal of ambitious and scheming Becky Sharp in the latest TV mini-series of William Makepeace Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair.”

Now, she takes on another mature and intense role in Wayne Roberts’ feature directorial debut, “Katie Says Goodbye.” The film follows a small town waitress who is mistreated by nearly everyone in her life — from her abusive mother (a terrifying Mireille Enos) to a seemingly never-ending string of men who pay her for sexual acts — but...

Peter Dinklage is going to have a lot more free time on his hands to do stuff with Game of Thrones coming to an end. He just signed on to star in a new post-apocalyptic film called Last Sons of America for Netflix and Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, The Batman) is set to produce the new film.

The movie will be an adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name that comes from writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson and illustrator Matthew Dow Smith. Here’s the description of the graphic novel:

When a biological terrorist attack makes it impossible for anyone in America to conceive, those looking to start a family must rely on adoption of children from around the world. Brothers Jackie and Julian are adoption agents based in Nicaragua, securing deals with families willing to give their children up for adoption. The duo usually conduct their adoptions through legal...

The Devil All The Time

Among the top film news items spilling out of the frenzied Toronto Intl. Film Festival was the significant packaging to Antonio Campos‘ simmering fourth feature film. The Devil All the Time now has Tom Holland, Mia Wasikowska, Chris Evans and Christine (read review) knockout performer Tracy Letts attached alongside Robert Pattinson. Last month Bill Skarsgard and Eliza Scanlen were just added. Set to go into production in February 2019, we’ve been huge fans of Campos and the Borderline Films’ Sean Durkin and Josh Mond since 2008’s Afterschool, and are generally curious as to where the filmmaker will land next.…...

The Nest

It appeared that after winning the first one out of the gate contest, Sean Durkin would finally be moving into a Janice Joplin biopic project, but to our surprise, The Nest was announced last April as the filmmaker’s official sophomore film – a full eight years since his other psychological thriller in Martha Marcy May Marlene (here is our interview with the filmmaker). Starring Jude Law, Carrie Coon and Anne Reid, The Nest was shot in Toronto, Canada around the same time as Tiff, this also moved to the U.K. Cinematographer Mátyás Erdély and film editor Matthew Hannam who teamed with Josh Mond on James White, return to the Borderline Films crew here.…...

Exclusive: Game Of Thrones lynchpin Peter Dinklage, Netflix, Matt Reeves (Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes) and publisher-producer Boom! Studios are teaming up on a feature version of Boom!’s post-apocalyptic graphic novel Last Sons Of America by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Matthew Dow Smith.

Dinklage will star in the film set in a not too distant future where Americans are no longer able to conceive and children have become a valuable commodity around the globe. In this world, brothers Jackie and Julian (Dinklage) operate as adoption agents in Colombia, securing deals with families willing to give their children up for a presumably better life in America. When the brothers suddenly find themselves with their backs against the wall, Jackie makes a grave mistake that sends them spiraling into a dark mystery at the root of their world’s status quo.

James White filmmaker Josh Mond will direct and is adapting.

Filmmaker Paul Harrill from Light From Light is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...

Filmmaker Tayarisha Poe from Selah and the Spades is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...

Cinematographer Ashley Connor from The Death of Dick Long is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...

Filmmaker Alistair Banks Griffin from The Wolf Hour is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next Section selected films.…...

Production Designer Kaet McAnneny from Alistair Banks Griffin’s The Wolf Hour is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...

Filmmaker Rashaad Ernesto Green from Premature is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...

Co-writer and actress Zora Howard from Premature is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...

Actor Joshua Boone from Rashaad Ernesto Green’s Premature is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...

Added to the Sundance film festival at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with our Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next Section selected films. Paradise Hills filmmaker Alice Waddington is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected.

Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2018 discoveries”.…...

Actress Danielle Macdonald from Paradise Hills is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...

Producer Núria Valls from Paradise Hills is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...

Actress Anna Margaret Hollyman from Sister Aimee is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...

Filmmaker Marie Schlingmann from Sister Aimee is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...

Filmmaker Samantha Buck from Sister Aimee is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo.We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...

Director Rhys Ernst from Adam is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...

Actor Leo Sheng from Adam is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo.We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...

Producer George Rush from Give Me Liberty is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...

It’s an association, friendship and creative partnership that began with Nicolas Pesce, that was nurtured by the Borderline Films’ Josh Mond, Antonio Campos and Sean Durkin and supported by the Sundance Film Festival programmers that has allowed for Jake Wasserman to bare two major American indie film cinematic gifts at the ’18 edition of the fest. As a producer, the Tisch grad was already familiar with the layout of the Park City land having previously co-produced 2015’s James White (Mond’s debut) and 2016’s The Eyes of My Mother (Pesce’s debut – read review) and now with the twosome of Pesce’s Piercing and Sebastián Silva’s Tyrel added to the conversation of auteur-driven projects that are both thought provoking and contain a stylistic pulse.…...

Exclusive: Nicolas Pesce’s horror dark comedy Piercing, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival Midnight section this year, has been acquired by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Content Group for a multi-platform release later this year. Pesce is a genre cinematic voice who has been on the rise, and he’s currently directing Sony’s re-imagining of the horror pic The Grudge which opens on August 16, 2019.

UTA Independent Film Group and Endeavor Content negotiated the deal for Piercing on behalf of the filmmaker.

Based on the novel by Ryu Murakami, Piercing follows Reed (Christopher Abbott) as he says goodbye to his wife (Laia Costa) and claims to be taking off on a business trip, but instead checks into a hotel with the intent to kill an unsuspecting victim. When he’s confronted with an alluring call girl (Mia Wasikowska) with her own dark intentions, both are consumed by a twisted game of cat and mouse.

Exclusive: Melissa Breaux has joined Management 360 as a manager, bringing a roster of actors, writers and directors with her. She will be based in Los Angeles. Breaux’s clients include filmmakers Nicole Kassell (Claws and Watchman pilots, The Leftovers), Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene), Antonio Campos (Simon Killer), Josh Mond (James White), Nicolas Pesce (Eyes of My Mother) and Eliza Hittman (Beach Rats). Her actor clients include Andre Royo (Empire, The Wire)…...

Exclusive: Melissa Breaux has joined Management 360 as a manager, bringing a roster of actors, writers and directors with her. She will be based in Los Angeles. Breaux’s clients include filmmakers Nicole Kassell (Claws and Watchman pilots, The Leftovers), Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene), Antonio Campos (Simon Killer), Josh Mond (James White), Nicolas Pesce (Eyes of My Mother) and Eliza Hittman (Beach Rats). Her actor clients include Andre Royo (Empire, The Wire)…...

Over the past few years, Sundance has arguably shunted most of its noteworthy titles off into its sidebars, whether they be prestigious premieres from world class auteurs deserving to compete rather than adorn a festival’s program (Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women; Dee Rees’ Mudbound) or relegating daring, tantalizing boundary pushers like Sean Baker’s Tangerine, Josh Mond’s James White, or Sebastian Silva’s Nasty Baby into the wild child Next sidebar.

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The jump from first to second feature is often a tough one for acclaimed filmmakers to make, but for “It Comes at Night” writer and director Trey Edward Shults, it was a seamless one. His first feature, the festival hit “Krisha,” was made for a fraction of his second, the A24-financed horror offering “It Comes at Night,” but one personal vision led directly to the other — literally, as A24 picked up the rights to the new project at the same time that it acquired his debut. The only difference on the second time around was money.

“Now we have an actual budget,” Shults said, laughing during a recent interview as he considered his progress. “It’s not at my mom’s house. It’s not with my family, though I brought as many friends as I could. It’s all funded from a studio.”

It’s a big change...

Christopher Abbott is a drifter who wreaks havoc on a small Alaskan town in The Hollywood Reporter's exclusive clip of Sweet Virginia.

The Girls alum, who made an impression in Josh Mond's drama James White, goes up against Jon Bernthal (The Punisher, The Walking Dead) in this gritty neo-Western, which premieres this month at New York's Tribeca Film Festival.

In the first clip of the film, Abbott's loner Elwood wanders into a closed diner much to the dismay of one of the locals on staff, Mitchell (Jonathan Tucker). When he is told to leave, Elwood threatens, "Do you have a wife that you...

Easily one of the more unforgettable films I’ve seen this year—genre or otherwise—is writer/director Nicolas Pesce’s The Eyes of My Mother, which follows a young woman named Francisca (Kika Magalhaes) as she copes with her loneliness through some rather depraved and heartbreaking ways.

The Eyes of My Mother recently played at the 2016 Fantastic Fest, and while at the festival, we had a chance to speak with the first-time feature filmmaker about his approach to his haunting character study, working with his incredible lead actress Magalhaes, and how he’s trying to bring back the feeling of the classic horror stories most of us grew up on, but with a bit of a modern twist.

Look for The Eyes of My Mother in December when it’s released by the fine folks over at Magnet Releasing.

I would love to hear about how the project came...