Taylor Olson’s sophomore feature film Look At Me and Stephan Peterson and Sonya Ballantyne’s feature documentary The Death Tour will world premiere at the 2024 Slamdance Film Festival.

The lineup for the 30th edition of Slamdance includes a total of 113 film from around the world. The festival will take place in Park City and Salt Lake City from Jan. 19 to 25, 2024, and virtually on the Slamdance Channel from Jan. 22 to 28.

Olson’s Look At Me (Afro Viking Pictures) will make its bow in the Unstoppable Features section. The film is written, directed, and produced by Olson. Kirsten Bruce, Koumbie and Shawn Beckwith are co-producers, while Britt Kerr serves as executive producer.

Look At Me, shot between July 2021 and March 2022, is described as “a fictional autobiography about an insecure, awkward and lonely actor who goes on an unwitting journey of self-love in the midst of an eating disorder relapse.”

The film is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Nova Scotia, and the province of Nova Scotia.

Co-directed by Peterson and Ballantyne, the feature doc The Death Tour, follows a group of wrestling have-beens and up-and-comers in the winter in Northern Canada on what is dubbed as “the hardest tour in indie wrestling.” The film is produced by Sergeo Kirby of Loaded Pictures and Stacey Tenenbaum of H2L Productions. Raven Banner Entertainment is attached as the film’s distributor.

The lineup includes a total of 14 Canadian titles, including two narrative shorts and one short doc making their world premieres.

The narrative shorts include Ian Bawa’s My Son Went Quiet and Karen Knox and Matt Eastman’s Canada-U.S. copro The Year of Staring at Noses. Jaime Leigh Gianopoulos’ Canada-Greece copro Ask The Plantain rounds out the list of Canadian world premieres.

The other Canadian titles include: Loveleen Kaur’s feature Leilani’s Fortune; the narrative shorts Deserter (U.S. Premiere) by Aidan Lesser, Kiarash Dadgar’s Canada-Iran copro The Steak, and *666 by Abby Flavo; and the short doc Madeline by Raquel Sancinetti.

Frédéric Moffet’s Canada-U.S. copro Goddess of Speed, Hair or No Hair by Janessa St. Pierre and Courtenay Mayes, Our Grandmother The Inlet by Jaime Leigh Gianopoulos and Kayah George, and season two of Jono Hunter’s Night Drives complete the lineup of Canadian titles.

Photo by Jessie Redmond