undertone Bringing Chills @Sundance 2026

Back in 2014, FERNTV had the opportunity to interview director Chad Archibald of The Drownsman during the After Dark Film Festival in Toronto. We got the sense that one of the founders of Black Fawn Films had a vision that was built on resilience and inspiring motivation, which would break barriers. Not only for his film crew but also for a whole host of others in the Canadian film industry.

Fast forward over a decade, and we find a Black Fawn Film selected at the Sundance Film Festival and being distributed by A24. undertone is director Ian Tuason‘s debut feature, where all eyes are on this year’s Sundance edition. It is the last year that Sundance will be held at Park City before it moves to Boulder, Colorado. It might be the last year that you get the real chills from the Midnight experience in Park City, especially from a film like undertone.

The film focuses on Evy, played by Nina Kiri, who must now move to take care of her dying mother. The house is full of sentimental keepsakes and memories, in which all move her through time in her mother’s past. In order to move forward, Evy hosts a supernatural podcast called The Undertone just to make things more interesting and eerie within this house.

Working with her co-host Justin, played by Adam DiMarco, Evy must filter out the useless content that is sent her way. Until she receives 10 messages from a pregnant couple, which messes with her sanity. Each message is unpacked one after the other during the podcast and exponentially more terrifying than the last. There is no question as to where the podcast goes from here or if Evy’s mind can sustain this madness along with caregiving for her mother.

Nevertheless, this story is a cautionary tale for those wishing to mess with the supernatural, which does not bode well most of the time. This is an audio encounter that certainly brings the audience into a new dimension of horror. For Black Fawn Films this is a new beginning who have brought the podcast to a new level.