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Actress Kristen Bush and Rebecca Ridenour in American Parent

FILMS

RURAL WOMEN FILMS

Burnt Sugar Productions creates rural women films that connect culture to place,

highlight the environment, and employ primarily female crews in the midwest and south. 

 

AMERICAN PARENT (2023)

Two new moms navigate questions of intimacy and shifting power-dynamics in this heartfelt exploration of queer parenthood

 

Buy Tickets to the World Premiere: BFI Flare London 

American Parent Poster

ROADTRIP TO THE TOTALITY ZONE (2025)*

An absurdist comedy about a dysfunctional mother and unemployed son as they roadtrip across Arkansas in their RV to see the solar eclipse. 

In Development: Production in Spring 2024

Inspiration Images for The Roadtrip to the Totality Zone

KOKOROMI GAKUEN

An alternative school in Japan offers hope and a fulfilling life to people with severe disabilities who learn to work the land.

"Kokoromi Gakuen" Movie Poster

THE GAME CAMERA (2024)*

When a grieving woman installs a night vision camera in her mini horse's corral, the specter of a human intruder on her rural Kansas ranch makes her reconsider her husband's death.

 

Filming in Kansas, Summer 2023

A Behind-the-scenes still from "The Game Camera"

FEAR NOT (2020)

A Mennonite school teacher trains to carry a gun in her classroom after her husband votes for the new law. 

Winner: 

Best Kansas Narrative Short Film, Tallgrass Film Festival

Recipient: Chicago Digital Media Production Fund grant

Fear Not poster

OUR BLOOD IS WINE (2018)

Filmmaker Emily Railsback and award-winning sommelier Jeremy Quinn provide intimate access to rural family life in the Republic of Georgia as they explore the rebirth of 8,000-year-old winemaking traditions almost lost during the period of Soviet rule.

"Our Blood Is Wine" Poster
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