BURNT SUGAR PRODUCTIONS
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
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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.
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In Development: Production in Spring 2024
KOKOROMI GAKUEN
An alternative school in Japan offers hope and a fulfilling life to people with severe disabilities who learn to work the land.
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
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FEAR NOT (2020)
A Mennonite school teacher trains to carry a gun in her classroom after her husband votes for the new law.
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Winner:
Best Kansas Narrative Short Film, Tallgrass Film Festival
Recipient: Chicago Digital Media Production Fund grant
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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.
