Director Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.–whose feature film debut Wild Indian is slated to premiere in the U.S, Dramatic Competition at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival (1/28-2/3)–has secured his first U.S. and French commercial representation, joining the roster of Paris and Los Angeles-based production company Loveboat.
Corbine Jr.’s love of movies began while growing up on Native American reservations in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and expanded after he watched Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, encouraging the start of his first projects. Corbine Jr. gained recognition for his short films Shinaab–which screened at Sundance and the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017–and then Shinaab, Part II, which made the cut at the same two fests, Toronto in 2018 and Sundance in 2019. The films earned him support from the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab and Directors Lab, along with aid from additional independent film nonprofits including McKnight Foundation and Cinereach.
With a natural ability to tell emotionally heavy and complex stories, Corbine Jr. explores human character, including the Native American identity, through elliptical storytelling and compelling visual style. Corbine Jr. wrote, directed and produced Wild Indian, which will premiere on January 30 at Sundance. Starring Michael Greyeyes, Chase Spencer, Jesse Eisenberg, and Kate Bosworth, the psychological thriller follows a young Anishinaabe boy and a murder that haunts him for years.
“Lyle’s ability to weave history, emotion, suspense, and his own personal story into his films is striking,” said Jeff Baron, Loveboat managing partner.
Corbine Jr. said he “felt a connection” to the recently launched Loveboat, the company’s “spirit of nurturing” creativity, and its “impressive roster of innovative directors and artists.”
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More